United Mine Workers of America President Brian Sanson is pressing the Mine Safety and Health Administration to immediately resume enforcement of the agency’s rule limiting miner exposure to respirable crystalline silica.

Knight Hawk Coal, LLC was created in 1998 to meet demand for southern Illinois’ high-quality, low chlorine coal when the large coal companies had withdrawn from the region and the Illinois coal industry had declined significantly.

A federal judge has dismissed the bankruptcy case of an Eastern Kentucky coal operator, leaving a lawsuit by hundreds of workers unresolved.

Eriez® has appointed Graeme Bainbridge to the position of Director of Global Manufacturing.

Komatsu South Africa is the first surface Trackless Mobile Machinery OEM to achieve Technology Readiness Level 4 certification after testing by the University of Pretoria at the Gerotek Test Facilities in West Pretoria and at a mining customer site.

Virginia Tech is one of 14 universities at the forefront of a federal push to expand domestic mining and mineral operations following a $100 million educational investment announced in early August.