But by the late 1970s and into the 1980s, the industry was touting what it called a better, more efficient method for underground mining. Longwall mining, which gets its name from digging out coal ...

A New South Wales Resources Regulator investigation has been launched into an underground coal mine fire in the Australian ...

At the start of their shift, the coal miners working on Enlow Fork Mine’s H-3 longwall section step into a black steel elevator and descend 800 feet underground, where they walk out through a heavy ...

In longwall mining, a machine burrows into a coal seam, making a tunnel as its removes the coal. Workers operate the machine from outside the tunnel.

Forty kilometres from the front line of the war in Ukraine, vertically integrated mining and metals company Metinvest has commissioned its eleventh longwall for coking coal in Block 10 of the ...

CAMERON, W.Va. — As longwall mining becomes an increasing concern near Cameron, the city clerk is preparing residents for what may come. “I just want them to be responsible for their actions ...

This week, Caterpillar successfully demonstrated a prototype of an all-new battery electric underground mining truck at its Australian proving grounds, making it the latest addition to a rapidly ...