EUREKA, Utah (AP) — An Arizona man's fall into an old mine shaft this month put a spotlight on the hundreds of thousands of abandoned mines that pepper the landscape of the American West.
Kentucky-based Rhino Resource Partners LP operates coal mines from Appalachia to Utah. Mine Safety and Health Administration chief David Zatezalo spent nine years with the company, including a four-year stint as CEO before retiring in 2013. Rhino Resource's loan is the maximum allowed under the...
1890 Val Verde County, Texas - Hand colored wood engraving featured in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper showing the Court House and Opera House, the Ochre Mines, San Felipe Springs. Showing Scenes in and about Del Rio. Fine condition. ...
In addition, they had access to uranium mines, prospects, and road cuts that are no longer open, providing significantly better exposures than exist today. On the other hand, map features do not fit modern base maps in many areas, several important contacts have been redefined since publication...
Don’t be fooled, there was a path that led from the coal mines or the Appalachians to Nashville, but few artists can assume the world they grew up knowing would sell records. Whenever you hear honesty on the radio, thank Loretta Lynn. No. 6: Reba McEntire Chris Weeks, Getty Images...
In 1888, thanks tothe Montana Gold Rush, Helena boasted more millionaires per capita than anywhere else in the entire world. William Chessman struck it rich in the local mines anderected this impressive Queen Annehome on North Ewing Street. Less than a dozen years later, Chessman's finances ...
earth. Secondly, M. de Luc, on the fifth of June, 1777, descended the mines of Hartz, to a depth of 1359 feet, where he found the air somehwat warmer than on the surface: but in the mines of Hungary, which are 3000 feet deep, the heat becomes very great and almost insupport...
I am told this was a promotional item to get investors for further development of western mines. SOLD ANTIQUE ONE TROY OUNCE GOLD NUGGET RING - Here is something you don't see everyday. It looks even better in person. The total weight is 1.15 oz. so the nugget itself is around an ...
The family were idle, superstitious, illiterate, and of doubtful reputation; and Joe, when he had grown to manhood, spent several years roving about in the neighboring towns, pretending to be engaged in digging for buried money and hunting silver mines. About 1827, he pretended he had found...
The wealthiest man in Montana is also the state's most charitable. Dennis Washington is the head of Washington Companies, which owns mines, railroads, and shipping containers. The Dennis and Phyllis Washington Foundation has given away hundreds of millions of dollars, including hundreds of scholar...