The fields of rock mechanics and coal mining engineering are at the confluence of geotechnical science and advanced engineering practice. The multidisciplinary research combines laboratory experiments ...

A once-struggling Chinese coal city turns the traditional fossil fuel into nylon, manufacturing popular fashion from ...

A team of geologists analyzed 3,500 samples taken in and around coal mines in Utah and Colorado. Their findings open the possibility that these mines could see a secondary resource stream in the form ...

Your second and third years have distinctive course requirements and electives. Here we can compare four related majors through select second and third year courses. This course presents a study of ...

Before mining came to Chhattisgarh, a landlocked state in central India, Hasdeo Arand was a remote forest with a dozen tribal hamlets. Spanning more than 650 square miles, the forest is often called ...

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At the site of a former coal mine in Jefferson County, Ohio, the Friendship Highwall Reclamation Project eliminated more than 9,000 linear ft of dangerous exposed cliffs and transformed the area into ...

A former coal mine in western Maryland has recently been transformed into the state’s largest solar farm and now generates enough electricity to supply power to more than 30,000 homes.

The UTEP Miners are making a comeback. But it's not on the football field or basketball court, or in any other athletic sphere; it's in the halls of academia. After disbanding the mining engineering ...