Belt, Montana, was built on coal. For 25 years men worked the coal mines ringing the small town east of Great Falls. The largest of these was the Anaconda Mine, which sat on the town’s western ...

The hemorrhaging old coal mine in Belt is a cancer on 14 ... Castner sold the mine to Anaconda Copper Mining in 1893. Coal production peaked in the late 1890s with a workforce of 1,200 with ...

Without coal, “the industrial and consumer base is in the process of getting pounded by their electrical rates this summer,” he said. “The coal mining industry has really been impacted since this ...

The push to clean up coal mine waste — not just in Belt Creek but at thousands of abandoned mine sites across the country — began in 1977 when Congress passed the Surface Mining Control and ...

The coal mines operated from the late-1870s to the mid-1940s with limited operations continuing into the 1950s. Mining activity left miles of abandoned underground workings surrounding Belt to the ...

About a quarter of a million miners worked in the American coal mining industry in 1980. That number has dwindled to 43,000 as of this spring, yet total coal production per human worker is way up ...

On average, 50 to 60 miners die in America while they are on the job. April 6, 2010— -- On average, 50 to 60 coal miners die in this country every year while they work. It is such a dangerous ...

The US had its worst ever coal mining accident in 1907, when 362 people died after a coal mine exploded in Monongah, West Virginia. That year, 3,242 people died in coal mining accidents.

Coal has helped divide Barack Obama from the people of this heavily Democratic state, but a memorial for the miners who perished will bring him and West Virginians together.

The strike at an Alabama coal mine is one of the longest in U.S. history. To make ends meet, some striking miners have picked up work at an Amazon warehouse. It’s the same warehouse where ...

But some say that working there, and at other coal mines across the Navajo Nation, has given miners lasting health problems, including black lung disease. After driving across the mine for about an ...

Accidents are common in Ukraine’s aging coal mines. Methane gas, a byproduct of coal mining, is highly explosive. In 2007, a methane blast killed more than 100 miners, the deadliest mining ...