Burning Coal Seam in West Virginia There are many known burning coal mine reported to exist. For some we know how the underground coal seam fire was started, for others we simply have no idea. A seam has been burning in mining town of Centralia, Pensylvania, since 1961 (see full review). Mount Wingen in Australia [Continue]

Pine Ridge Deep Coal Mine – Best Maintained Coal Mine I have Seen Note: I am only using few images for the article. To look at the full gallery of Pine Ridge Coal Mine Visit HERE I always get excited visiting another deep coal mine. All coal mines are different, but still they all look [Continue]

Conventional Coal Mine visit in Kentucky – quite an experience! I have been visiting underground coal mines quite frequently for last few months. Most of the deep mines I have visited so far are in Virginia, West Virginia and Kentucky. Till my last visit, I only experienced deep mines with continuous miner. They usually have [Continue]

Poor roof rock conditions in an underground coal mine. Just few days back I had a trip to an underground mine in West Virginia. They were mining Pocahontas 3 coal seam. P-3 seam is quite thick in that area and it is a good quality coal too. However they have serious problem with poor roof [Continue]