Coal mining is a tough job — miners work long hours in harsh conditions, but it pays well and some people love it. Here's what it's like down below.

Lexington Coal Co., which now holds the permit, was fined $30,000 in June for failing to clean up the mine and stop the leakage.

In late September, an underground coal mine just outside the town of East Carbon in rural Utah caught fire. More than two months later, it’s still burning. Now, the once-bustling mine called ...

Disused coal mines could be refashioned to place vast fields of solar panels, a new report suggests, providing an unlikely solution to a common obstacle to uptake of the green energy source. Coal ...

Coal mining has already flatlined here; by last count the county had just 26 miners left, down from a peak of thousands.

Since the return of the Taliban, Afghanistan's coal exports have increased — and so has child labor. At a coal mine in Baghlan province, boys earn between $3 and $8 for a day's work.

The coal region of western Kentucky has managed to keep its mining industry alive through changing energy trends of the past few decades. That is, until now.

Coal mining and coal-fired power plants have negatively impacted the health and environment of the Diné and other tribal communities. Proposed legislation aims to expand coal mining on public ...

The Hobet mine was born in 1974 under a man named Fil Nutter – part of a West Virginia prospecting family that controlled a construction company, limestone pit and small-time coal mines.

The coal produced at Utah's Emery Deep mine is so full of ash some of it can't be sold, pushing hedge-fund owners to seek fresh deposits to mine.

Methane gas, a byproduct of coal mining, is highly explosive. In 2007, a methane blast killed more than 100 miners, the deadliest mining accident in the country’s post-Soviet history.