Coal mining has been an essential part of British industry since Roman times. This collection looks at the hardship of the day-to-day toil beneath the earth as well as the effects of industrial ...

Supporters of the mine warned that coking coal remained vital for a domestic steel industry that would otherwise rely on countries such as China and Russia for imports. Tata and British Steel have ...

The mine's supporters say using British coal would save the carbon emitted by shipping it from abroad. But Labour's shadow business secretary Ed Miliband has argued that 85% of coal due to be ...

West Cumbria Mining (WCM) said it would "consider ... argued there is "no significant need for the coal" in the UK given statements from British Steel and Tata over their moves to electric arc ...

British courts overturned a permit given by the previous Conservative government to a project in Whitehaven, Cumbria, which had been set to become the country's first new coal mine for 30 years.

As a labor lawyer and community advocate in Southern West Virginia, I was inspired recently by visiting the coalfields in the ...

THE annual meeting of the British Coal Utilisation Research Association was held in London on December 15, 1943. In his presidential address, Sir Evan Williams, Bart., gave an account of the ...

British multinational mining company Anglo American Plc has entered into an agreement to sell 33.3% in the Australian coal mine Jellinbah Group for 1.6 billion Australian dollars ($1.05 billion) to ...

The demand-surpassing production of metallurgical coal, in spite of the availability of environment-friendly alternatives for ...