The bucket is all that remains of Big Muskie, once the largest single-bucket digging machine ever created. It tells a ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Montana’s largest coal mine is set for an expansion that could increase its coal production by 19 ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. The federal government has authorized a nearly 1,900-acre expansion of the mine that supplies ...

The world’s largest producer of coal, Coal India Ltd., has sought bids to build 5 gigawatts of renewable projects, an effort to diversify its portfolio in view of a possible decline in future coal ...

Maryland’s largest active underground coal mine changed hands last month after its previous operator, Canadian firm Corsa Coal, filed for bankruptcy and auctioned its assets to pay creditors. The new ...

Leading coal company Peabody Energy announced it will write down the value of the nation’s largest coal mine by $1.42 billion, as conditions for thermal coal production continue to weaken, according ...

The machine was built to operate continuously under extreme conditions. Its size and power leave little room for human error. Every moving component carries enough force to cause serious injury or ...

One of Wyoming’s largest coal mines just unlocked more than 14 million tons of federal coal in the Powder River Basin, a little more than half the volume the mine produces in a year, according to the ...