Given the go-ahead back in 2005, the UK's largest opencast mine was officially classed as a "land reclamation scheme". That meant part of the profits made from selling 11 million tonnes of coal over ...

This article was originally published at Coal Zoom and is republished here with permission. Will Rogers once said: ...

A mining lamp sculpture has been unveiled celebrating the heritage of a former pit town. The sculpture, which has been ...

Chief engineer Andy Cowie said it has safeguarded the line’s future for the foreseeable future. He said: ‘A lot of heritage ...

Contentious plans to open the UK's first new coal mine in decades appeared doomed Friday after it emerged the new Labour government will not defend the project's previous approval in court. The High ...

Tsvetana is a writer for Oilprice.com with over a decade of experience writing for news outlets such as iNVEZZ and SeeNews. London’s High Court on Friday quashed a planning permission for the UK’s ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's burning coal pit may herald the last act for UK underground coal mining, which is already battling greener government policy and cheap imports from Colombia, Russia and ...