Crews tearing apart a 1.5-acre pile of coal mine refuse that has been smoldering for two decades recently uncovered a section ...

Coal — the rock, not the roll — is one of the dirtier fuel sources out there, with both mining and burning it often leading to serious medical complications for those involved. Now, though ...

In coal-rock formations, many micro-fractures exist, and the expansion of these micro-fractures is the internal catalyst for the macroscopic destruction of coal-rock. Moreover, the occurrence ...

When the project is finished, the excavation team will have moved 182,000 cubic yards of material, which is about 72,000 pickup-truck loads of coal, rock and dirt.

The Labor Department announced Tuesday it has issued a new federal rule on miners' safety; the rule cuts down the permissible exposure limit for crystalline silica, linked to black lung disease.

After decades of delays and broken promises, coal miners hail rule to slow rise of black lung Retired coal miner James Bounds, who has pneumoconiosis, more commonly known as black lung, sit at ...

CBS News Pittsburgh Live. Coal miners will be better protected from poisonous silica dust that has contributed to the premature deaths of thousands of mine workers from a respiratory ailment ...