Each January, Luzerne County honors its past with Anthracite Heritage Month, a time to reflect on the profound impact of anthracite coal mining on the region’s history, culture and people. For decades ...

Photographed in 1972, the coal miners pictured worked in Wanamie, Newport Township, one of the last underground coal mines operating in the 1970s in Wyoming Valley. WILKES-BARRE — Professor Bob ...

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 ...

Dec. 28—WILKES-BARRE — A regional observance of Anthracite Mining Heritage Month will take place during January 2024. A variety of programs will be featured in Wilkes-Barre, Scranton, Hazle Township, ...

Despite a downturn in export volume, Reading & Northern Railroad shipped more than one million tons of Anthracite coal for ...

Reading Blue Mountain & Northern (RBMN) announced Dec. 31 that it has shipped more than one million tons of Anthracite coal ...

SCRANTON – As historic sites and museums celebrated Pennsylvania’s birthday, Justin W. Emershaw, a mining engineer with Hazleton-based Atlantic Carbon Group, provided a current look at one of the ...

Anthracite Mining Heritage Month will be observed in Northeast Pennsylvania in January with 19 programs to be held in Wilkes-Barre, Scranton, Pittston, Port Griffith, Plymouth, Dallas, Wyoming, and ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Hazleton mining operations a century ago were as famous for removing water as for carting out coal ...

SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — January is Anthracite Mining Heritage Month. A variety of programs will be featured throughout the month in several counties in NEPA to focus on the history ...

A regional observance of Anthracite Mining Heritage Month will take place in January. A variety of programs will be featured in Scranton, Wilkes-Barre, Hazle Twp., Ashley, Plymouth, Pittston, ...