A Libby man died in a slope collapse Sunday near an old mine site in Lincoln County, the sheriff’s office announced Monday. Cliff Auge, 54, of Libby, was caught in a dirt-bank slide Sunday near the ...

The company that’s considering open-pit mining on the Santa Rita Mountains’ west slope has obtained extensive private land holdings there. It says they’re large enough to accommodate waste-rock and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. PITTSTON, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — It’s been 65 years since the Knox Mine disaster. On January 22, 1959, the ice-filled ...

The small group of men fleeing onrushing water through the Knox Coal Co.’s River Slope Mine tore frantically at the pile of debris before them, trying to clear a way to the air shaft through which ...

Bill Best, local mining historian, led a walk Sunday to the site of the Knox Mine Disaster in Jenkins Twp. On Jan. 22, 1959, 12 men who died when the Susquehanna River crashed through the River Slope ...

While fighting in court to keep its planned Rosemont Mine alive, Hudbay Minerals Inc. plans to start exploratory drilling Thursday on the other side of the Santa Ritas to see if future mining there ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A wildfire that sparked near a Western Slope coal mine closed a state highway for several hours between Meeker and Craig, officials said Friday. Related ...