The West Virginia Mine Wars are an important but little known piece of American history. Coal miners in southern West Virginia had been trying to organize a union, while coal companies tried to stop ...

According to West Virginia Archives and History, West Virginia’s coal mining industry has suffered approximately 115 coal mining disasters in the history of the Mountain State. Some of the worst ...

CHARLESTON, (WOWK) – Mining is an integral ... disasters in American history, the explosions of the Fairmont Coal Company’s No. 6 and 8 mines in Monongah, West Virginia. The blasts happened ...