POTTSVILLE – When it went into operation in March 1931, the St. Nicholas breaker outside Mahanoy City was one of the largest processors of anthracite coal in the world. State-of-the-art technology, it ...

Anthracite mined in Northeast Pennsylvania has the highest grade of carbon in the world and is a different product than what politicians refer to when they call for “No More Coal,” a local mining ...

When it went into operation in March 1931, the St. Nicholas breaker outside Mahanoy City was one of the largest processors of anthracite coal in the world. State-of-the-art technology, it was capable ...

PAY STREAK—John Baragwanath—Doubleday, Doran ($2). Except for the pontifical autobiography that the late John Hays Hammond wrote at the age of 80, U. S. mining engineers have been surprisingly ...

Amy McBrayer, 34, the daughter of Lloyd and Paula Burt, is a 2008 graduate of West Branch High School. She is a mining engineer teaching at West Virginia University. A former West Branch valedictorian ...

The American Institute of Mining & Metallurgical Engineers is enjoying vicarious profit from the oncoming U. S. Presidency of Mining Engineer Herbert Clark Hoover. He was, in 1920, president of the ...