Dark and dangerous coal mine tunnels. To protect the lives of the miners working there, a yellow canary was brought in. Why ...

These photos document the working conditions, routines, and daily realities of early coal mining communities. Long before modern machinery and safety standards, miners of all ages worked in difficult ...

At Beckley Exhibition Coal Mine, you don’t just learn about West Virginia’s coal mining history. You ride 1,500 feet inside a former coal mine with a retired miner as your guide. And there’s more to ...

In the early 1840s, a group of businessmen in the Philadelphia area became aware of stories of untold wealth of cannel coal, a very special coal which would also yield coal oil, which existed in the ...