The Interior Department signed off on a mine on Nature Conservancy-managed forestland in Tennessee. The Trump administration ...

(The Center Square) – A mining project in northeast Tennessee is moving forward after receiving approval from the U.S.

A new coal mining permit for Hurricane Creek Mining, LLC has been approved, producing 1.8 million tons on Bryson Mountain.

The US Department of the Interior (DOI) has granted approval to Hurricane Creek Mining to commence coal mining operations on ...

The Trump administration said it permitted a proposed coal mine in Claiborne County, Tennessee on Tuesday under an expedited ...

The Australian mine has up to 27, mostly thin, coal seams, meaning it is ideally suited for Wirtgen surface miners. Haulage: more tons per hour The major cost factor in opencast mining is haulage.

Legacy surface coal mines, abandoned generations ago, persist today. Land reclamation techniques and adaptive land uses at reclaimed sites are recognized with awards this month from the Department ...

Don Blankenship talked about his background in business and the need to perform more surface mining of coal in order to meet the nation's energy requirements. He also answered questions about ...

Almost 8,000 t of material was screened to compare the material produced by surface miners and conventional mining methods. In one coal mine, Wirtgen surface miners are operating alongside dozers ...

Under the federal surface coal mining law, SMCRA, and associated regulations, companies are supposed to reclaim the land as much as possible while mining is still ongoing — essentially, mine ...

It was 1979 and Rebecca Hunt of Birmingham, Ala., then 26 years old, was looking for work. “I was lucky,” Hunt said. “I got a job in a coal mine in Goodsprings, Ala. I operated a … ...

Mine operators have been increasingly turning to an alternative to conventional rip-and-stack or drill-and-blast coal mining – the use of surface miners. Diverse studies and tests show that ...