Mammoth will be an underground bord-and-pillar operation, which will access an estimated 41-million run-of-mine tonnes of metallurgical coal reserves through the existing opencut pit highwall in S-Pit ...
At the start of their shift, the coal miners working on Enlow Fork Mine’s H-3 longwall section step into a black steel elevator and descend 800 feet underground, where they walk out through a heavy ...
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's burning coal pit may herald the last act for UK underground coal mining, which is already battling greener government policy and cheap imports from Colombia, Russia and ...