SCRANTON – As historic sites and museums celebrated Pennsylvania’s birthday, Justin W. Emershaw, a mining engineer with Hazleton-based Atlantic Carbon Group, provided a current look at one of the ...

POTTSVILLE — Duane Fegley, executive director of the Pennsylvania Anthracite Council, recently addressed members and guests of the Pottsville Rotary Club about PAC and the anthracite coal industry and ...

NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY, Pa. — There is coal as far as the eye can see at Atlas Anthracite Coal Corporation. The facility outside Mount Carmel processes anthracite coal. "We have five different sizes, ...

MOUNT CARMEL - Coal could be coming out of the ground as early as next month at what is described as the largest current development in the commonwealth's anthracite region. The rain has to let up for ...

KANSAS — Saying it plans to become a major producer of anthracite, a Mid-Western company has purchased a Branch Twp. coal company. Guess & Co, announced this week that it bought the 56-acre tract from ...

Another week went by at Atlantic City (TIME, July 20, 27) and the anthracite coal miners and operators managed to sandwich in four sessions of conference. They have until Aug. 31 (when the present ...

SCRANTON, Pa. — Anthracite coal was king during the early 1900's. Most of the nation at that time was powered by Northeastern Pennsylvania's coal. For African American Charles Edgar Patience of ...

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 ...

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