SCRANTON – As historic sites and museums celebrated Pennsylvania’s birthday, Justin W. Emershaw, a mining engineer with Hazleton-based Atlantic Carbon Group, provided a current look at one of the ...

WILKES-BARRE — Black diamonds might not have as many settings these days as they did a century ago, but they haven’t lost their luster. Although mining operations have scaled back considerably from ...

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POTTSVILLE — Duane Fegley, executive director of the Pennsylvania Anthracite Council, recently addressed members and guests of the Pottsville Rotary Club about PAC and the anthracite coal industry and ...

MAHANOY CITY — An industry trade association is calling on President Donald Trump to enact tariffs on imported anthracite coal, a spokesperson announced Wednesday. “The anthracite industry requests ...

Anthracite mined in Northeast Pennsylvania has the highest grade of carbon in the world and is a different product than what politicians refer to when they call for “No More Coal,” a local mining ...

WILKES-BARRE -- For more than a century, the anthracite mines of Pennsylvania fed the furnaces of a nation. It boiled the steam in the locomotives that transported tons of coal to Harrisburg and ...

Each January, Luzerne County honors its past with Anthracite Heritage Month, a time to reflect on the profound impact of anthracite coal mining on the region’s history, culture and people. For decades ...

Photographed in 1972, the coal miners pictured worked in Wanamie, Newport Township, one of the last underground coal mines operating in the 1970s in Wyoming Valley. WILKES-BARRE — Professor Bob ...

Tom Maziekas’ house in Mahanoy City faces a row of empty lots. Rowhomes once stood there, but they suffered the fate of many buildings in this once-booming coal town in northeastern Pennsylvania: a ...

THE same date, April 1, for the first time in the history of our coal industry, calls this year for the settlement of wages in both anthracite and bituminous mines over the whole region east of the ...

There are budget earmarks from powerful congressmen, earmarks from not-so-powerful congressmen and, as it turns out for an old mining town in Pennsylvania's Appalachians, there's even an earmark from ...