I head out to one of Alabama's Coal Mining towns that has been all but forgotten! While mudlarking we uncover Relics, Antique ...

Often nicknamed ghost towns, these once populated places become ... by the Mitsubishi company in the 1880s as a hub of national coal mining, and once had a population of over 5,000 people.

Toll of abandoned mines Abandoned mines are a major ... “Honestly, Crabtree, these coal-patch towns? On any given day, something could cut loose,” he said. State officials are trying to ...

Ordos, China, once flush with cash, has been called the world's largest ghost town. In the early 2000s, a coal-mining boom led the local government to throw money at urban development in the hopes ...

Throughout the fall and winter months, an underground fire sent billowing smoke out of a fissure in the mountainside above Kenilworth, Utah. The fire, burning in a coal seam in the historic Kenilworth ...

the town had seven coal mines and numerous enterprises involved in coal, building materials and metallurgy. "With the ...