It’s well known that the history of the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad is intertwined with coal in the southern anthracite region. The Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Co. (P&RC&I) owned and ...

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 ...

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 ...

WEST PITTSTON — In the troubled history of anthracite coal mining in Northeastern Pennsylvania, there is little that can compare with the long-term battle between labor activist Sicilian mine workers ...

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 ...

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 ...

Scott Herring didn’t know the boyhood images he captured in Tamaqua with his plastic lens Insta-Snappy camera would be a snapshot of an industry in flux. “Initially, I was just trying to record what ...

We carved our present out of coal’s past. Regardless of what the county and region thrive on now, or how we forge the future, Anthracite coal forever sits at the heart of how we became who we are. It ...

Anthracite Mining Heritage Month will be marked throughout Northeastern Pennsylvania. A full calendar of regional events is available at and will be updated with ...