The miners union says hundreds of workers have been left unemployed a week before Christmas as central Queensland firm Bounty Mining Limited enters into voluntary administration. Cook Colliery is ...

THREE hundred and forty years ago the learned German writer Agricola, enumerated, in the first book of his treatise, De re metallica, the various branches of knowledge that ought to be acquired by a ...

The closure of the pit on January 31, 1969, left the county with only one surviving coal mine, Granville Colliery on the outskirts of Telford, which was destined to close 10 years later. And of the ...

Raising the American flag at the renamed General MacArthur colliery in Swoyersville. Picture published in the Wilkes-Barre Record on May 25, 1942 It was a busy day in the Wyoming Valley on Sunday, May ...

Glen Alden Coal Company shut down the Stanton No. 7 Colliery in May 1932 to modernize the breaker in preparation of coal output from the Hollenback, Empire and Stanton mines. Ten days before 2,000 ...

Once the heart of Houghton-le-Spring’s industrial past, the former Houghton Colliery site has undergone a remarkable transformation. Now home to the bustling Houghton Colliery Retail Park, the 65,000 ...