The coal-producing areas of West Virginia have been traditionally defined as fields, each field corresponding to a given geographical location or region of the state. Our readers should note that a ...

5 Block coal is mined, mostly in eastern Kanawha and Clay counties. Development of the Kanawha Coal Field The Kanawha Coal Field is one of the oldest fields in West Virginia. The first commercial ...

According to West Virginia Governor Patrick Morrisey, the incident happened at the Progress Surface Mine in Twilight, West ...

West Virginia Governor Patrick Morrisey has released a statement saying a West Virginia man died in a coal mining accident in Boone County. “I’m deeply saddened to hear about the death of one of our ...

The country's top mine safety expert was part of a panel that appeared Tuesday afternoon in a Senate hearing about the recent explosion that killed 29 West Virginia coal miners in the worst U.S ...

WYOMING COUNTY, WV (WVNS) — Bluestone Coal Corporation’s Poca surface mine’s mining permit was suspended by the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection. According to a press release, the ...

BOONE COUNTY, WV (WOWK) – A West Virginia coal miner has died after a mining accident in Boone County. According to West Virginia Governor Patrick Morrisey, the incident happened at the Progress ...

QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — At least three miners have died after a methane gas explosion caused a coal mine to collapse in a remote area of southwest Pakistan, officials said Friday, as authorities ...

Islamabad: Two miners have been killed when a coal mine collapsed in Pakistan‘s restive Balochistan province, the second mining disaster in the area within a week. The tragedy hit on Sunday in the ...

has sealed its second-largest metallurgical coal mine after a fire broke out Monday and will likely lose about six months of production from the West Virginia site. The new company owns 11 mines ...

A Logan County coal miner died in an accident at a mine in Boone County, Gov. Patrick Morrisey said in a statement Wednesday. Steven Fields, 55, of Chauncey, died from injuries he sustained in an ...