Coal is America’s bedrock — a gritty, enduring force that smelted the steel of our cities, lit the lamps of our progress, and ...

Appropriate celebration of the centennial of anthracite coal is being considered by the citizens of the town of Plymouth, Pa. In 1807 the first shipment of the "black stone" was made by boat down ...

In North Carolina, a vein of trap cuts through bituminous coal. Now, trap, all admit, was once fluid through high heat, and where it is in contact with the coal it has changed it into anthracite.

As Scranton is best known for its anthracite coal ... like to actually work hundreds of feet underground inside of a coal vein. Though it should be said that the experience for the actual miners ...

Mainly Museums describes it as the "largest and best-preserved anthracite mining community ... a few prospectors came to visit and found several veins of coal. When they presented their findings ...