In an early scene from the Oscar-winning “Harlan County U.S.A.,” a piece of technology is shown swallowing coal miners by the dozen. One after the other, we see helmeted workers merge their prone ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the mid-1700s, the earliest area anthracite mines offered secure employment for local residents. Nearly 250 years later, ...

A new copper mine that could be an economic boost to the western Upper Peninsula has garnered both support and resistance. Highland Copper Company plans to develop a $425 million copper mine in ...

The Biden administration wants that to happen. But the bipartisan infrastructure law doesn’t require that projects hire former miners. President Joe Biden might be about to satisfy a long-standing ...

Coal production and mining jobs over the past half-century have been influenced by several factors, principally demand from the utility sector, technological breakthroughs in natural gas production, ...