Workers in Conroe were gearing up Tuesday to haul a colossal, 63.4-metric ton dragline excavator - essentially, a giant shovel - overnight to a coal mine near Austin. The 130-mile trip to Elgin was to ...

ALKOL, W.Va. — A very large piece of equipment that has played a significant role in the West Virginia coal industry in the last three decades will soon be turned off for the final time on top of a ...

When gold was discovered in Alaska at the end of the 19th century, it was individual miners who initially exploited the resource using picks and shovels and other rudimentary equipment. As easy ...

BEULAH - A gigantic dragline working a coal seam at Dakota Westmoreland Mine near Beulah tipped precariously forward when ground beneath it crumbled away. The incident happened about 5 a.m. Sunday at ...

WASHBURN, N.D. (AP) - One of the huge draglines that digs for coal at a central North Dakota mine has tipped over. The incident happened Wednesday at the Falkirk Mine near Washburn. A mine spokesman ...