WVU President Michael T. Benson has selected longtime mining engineering educator and researcher Syd Peng as the first ...

Traditional coal-fired power generation is typically associated with high pollution levels, significant carbon emissions, ...

The fields of rock mechanics and coal mining engineering are at the confluence of geotechnical science and advanced engineering practice. The multidisciplinary research combines laboratory experiments ...

It’s a little-known fact that Columbia University, in Manhattan, was home to the first mining school in America—the School of Mines—founded in 1864. For the past three decades, the university’s ...

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POTTSVILLE – When it went into operation in March 1931, the St. Nicholas breaker outside Mahanoy City was one of the largest processors of anthracite coal in the world. State-of-the-art technology, it ...

Mansur Arief never imagined himself working in mining. As an artificial intelligence researcher finishing a PhD at Carnegie Mellon University, he developed safety algorithms for self-driving cars. But ...

"The coal itself is not enriched in rare earth elements," Vanden Berg said. "There's not going to be a byproduct from mining the coal, but for a company mining the coal seam, could they take a couple ...

In the College of Engineering, the first year student experience is similar across undergraduate majors. Your second and third years have distinctive course requirements and electives. Your second and ...