Crews train for emergency mine scenarios at No. 9 Mine in Lansford

LANSFORD, Pa. — Crews from across the region are getting suited up and ready to make their way down into the coal mine at the ...
Penn Live

To save Pa. coal mines, officials devised a preposterous plan: Build a 137-mile tunnel

WILKES-BARRE -- For more than a century, the anthracite mines of Pennsylvania fed the furnaces of a nation. It boiled the steam in the locomotives that transported tons of coal to Harrisburg and ...
Vail Daily

Explosion kills one in eastern Pa. coal mine; four others escape, officials say

TREMONT, Pa. – A coal mine explosion killed a miner Monday, but four others escaped, authorities said.The blast happened at the R&D Coal Co. anthracite mine in Schuylkill County, about 80 miles ...
WESA

A Tragedy And A Miracle: Southwestern PA's Mine Disasters Revisited

Boy Scout Troop #478 members salute during a flag raising ceremony at the Quecreek Mine historical marker in Somerset, Pa. The site marks the area where coal miners were pulled to safety after being ...