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 ...

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 ...

RHINEBECK >> The Town Board has wrapped up the public hearing on whether to adopt a zoning map that correctly identifies the boundaries of mining activity instead of the entire parcels where mining ...

PENNSYLVANIA, USA — Pennsylvania has a long history of anthracite coal mining. The result is that millions of buildings and homes are located above abandoned mines. Looking to see old mine maps? Penn ...

SINGAPORE, 27 September, 2019 – During the World Digital Mining Summit (WDMS) - which will take place in Frankfurt on 8-10 October - Bitmain will launch the first platform to connect mining hardware ...

CORNING – Mike Jones would watch as his grandfather left the house in coughing fits, spitting up blood in the yard — the result of decades working in a Corning-area coal mine. Jones, now 69, lives in ...

Highway construction. By Andrey Grigoriev via iStock for WMNF News. Hardee County’s Planning and Zoning Board pushed forward Thursday proposed changes to a map that shows where phosphate may be mined ...

Residents near Chelatchie Bluff thought an application that could someday allow surface mining of gravel on 330 acres near their homes was dead. After all, the Clark County Council held a public ...

The Environmental Justice Atlas released new maps March 2 alleging that Pan American Silver operates mines that don’t have the consent of local communities and that pollute local water supplies — ...

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 ...

Bitmain is creating the eHarmony of bitcoin mining. Okay, maybe that’s a bit embellished, but the mining firm is creating a tool that connects large-scale mining operations with individual suitors ...

Miners have their eyes on reserves that have been officially demarcated for 15 years and are inhabited by isolated indigenous peoples. Applications to mine on indigenous lands in the Amazon have ...