The near-tragic accident in Pennsylvania illustrates a hazard that coal miners have worried about for years: Maps of many abandoned mines are inaccurate, in part because former operators voraciously ...

WILKES-BARRE – Robert Hughes stopped his maroon SUV in the middle of Espy Street, turning on his flashers to let drivers know he might be there for a while. He knelt by an uncovered hole in the street ...

Municipalities in the former anthracite mining area are being offered free mining maps to assist in community planning, coping with possible natural gas pipeline placement and with mine subsidence ...

Since nine men were trapped last year in a flooded Somerset County coal mine for three days, state officials have sought people willing to share their maps of coal mines. On Wednesday, they may have ...

The documentary heritage “Mining maps and plans of the Main Chamber - Count Office in Banská Štiavnica” represents a collection of almost 20 thousand of items from the 17th century up to the early ...

The Mining Advocacy Network (Jatam) filed the freedom-of-information lawsuit after failing to get a response to its earlier requests to the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources. The group contends ...

AN HISTORICAL map of the main branch of the Horná Bíberova štôlňa (Upper Bíber’s Mine) in the Banská Štiavnica region dating back to 1641 has been restored by experts from the State Central Mining ...

HARRISBURG – Governor Tom Corbett announced that the Department of Environmental Protection has launched Pennsylvania Mine Map Atlas, an online underground mine map viewer. Pennsylvania Mine Map Atlas ...

The death of two Azerbaijani journalists and a local government official in a land mine explosion has drawn attention to the ongoing danger of unexploded ordnance in the territories that Azerbaijan ...