Many towns have turned into ghost towns because they ran out of coal to mine, but in Kolmanskop’s case, it was diamonds. By 1912, the town was producing nearly 12% of the world’s total diamond ...

This community of about 1,000 was doomed when a garbage fire ignited abandoned coal mines that ran right under the town. Despite every effort to extinguish it, the fire has been burning since 1962.

“The fire was first discovered in an abandoned coal stripping pit just outside of town,” explains Dr. Stephen R. Couch, Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Science, Technology and Society at ...

Ghost towns and villages surround Vorkuta in Russia's bitter Arctic north, a legacy of its time as a booming coal mine. The coal here was once mined by prisoners at the area's cruel and infamous ...

An abandoned coal mine caught fire in 1962, and it’s been smoldering underground ever since. Residents understandably evacuated and the town never recovered. Over time, the population dropped to ...

Ghost Towns: Sego, a Coal Town with a Colorful Past Down a bumpy canyon road in the Book Cliffs of southeastern Utah, curious travelers can find the ghost town of Sego.

History of the 'Ghost-town' Before the fire, Centralia had a rich history dating back to the mid-19th century. Founded in 1866, the town was built on abundant anthracite coal deposits.

Sometimes, abandoned mines can find new life as tourist attractions. In Stearns, the company-owned coal town my Papaw was raised in, ... I see a path forward for Kentucky’s abandoned coal mines.

Rescue crews continued digging, pumping oxygen in abandoned mine. The defunct mine Pollard was found in is in Marguerite, an unincorporated community and coal town in Westmoreland County, Limani said.

Coal mining’s roots in the Pittsburgh area run deeper than the foundations of American democracy. Since the mid-1700s, years before the Declaration of Independence, Pennsylvanians have mined ...

Researchers argue that 300GW of solar energy could be produced at Mpumalanga’s old mines and those closing in the next decade ...