In the mid-1700s, the earliest area anthracite ... mine electrical inspectors to work “in the anthracite coal region of Pennsylvania” in Lackawanna and Luzerne counties, as well as in ...

Saying it plans to become a major producer of anthracite, a Missouri company has purchased a Branch Twp. coal company, it announced this week. Guess & Company bought the 14-acre tract from RIE ...

A geology field trip will take participants into a historic coal mine and a fossil site on Saturday, May 3, led by geologist ...

The health and safety of coal miners could ... regions in Pennsylvania and eight other states, as well as field offices in Waynesburg, Marshall and Frackville, Schuylkill County.

MORE FROM FOX56: Woman charged with death of infant in Luzerne County To date, Pennsylvania has rehabilitated more than 151,000 acres of the roughly 288,000 acres of abandoned coal mines across ...

MOUNT CARMEL, NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY (WBRE ... permitting process for coal companies to operate their mines. Northeastern Pennsylvania sits on top of the largest known anthracite coal deposits ...

The country’s only anthracite mines are in Carbon, Columbia, Lackawanna, Luzerne, Northumberland and Schuylkill counties. Bituminous coal is the other and second-best burning. It’s mined mostly in ...

where the group will take a guided tour into a once-active underground coal mine, including the hospital. According to their website, the No. 9 Coal Mine was opened in 1855 by the Lehigh Coal and ...

The two met in New York and recently settled in Gouldsboro, in Wayne County. Despite coming from two ... moved to the northeast part of Pennsylvania, seeking work in the anthracite coal mines. The ...