Class II Reading & Northern (RBMN), “The Road of Anthracite,” has surpassed hauling one million tons of the coal that provides its nickname. “Ever since December 1990 when Andy Muller Jr. purchased ...

Anthracite mined in Northeast Pennsylvania has the highest grade of carbon in the world and is a different product than what politicians refer to when they call for “No More Coal,” a local mining ...

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 ...

PENNSYLVANIA (WHTM) – Coal was a source of energy and mining coal in Pennsylvania dates back to the 1700s and was used for power, to heat homes, and to produce steel. Pennsylvania played a huge role ...

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, ...

Sep. 1—The 16th Coal Miners Heritage Festival & Picnic will be held from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday on the grounds of the No. 9 Coal Mine & Museum in Lansford, Carbon County. The Coal Miners Heritage ...

SCRANTON – The oldest tourist mine in Pennsylvania is now also the newest. The Brooks Mine, a model mine in Nay Aug Park in Scranton dating to 1902 but closed for nearly half a century, reopens to the ...

Anthracite coal converted this region from agrarian to industrial. The discovery of hard coal — and the discovery by Jesse Fell of how to burn the stuff — spurred booms in the economy and population.

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 ...

In the late 1700s to mid-1800s, coal miners worked in dim light, fueled at first by candles affixed to their heads, and later by whale’s oil lamps. Hundreds of years later, Underground Miners, a ...

The strike of the miners in the anthracite coal fields in Pennsylvania, called because the wage contract with the Union had expired on Aug. 31 and no new contract could be agreed upon, continued ...