The Oxbow Mine. Sounds like something out of an old western, but it’s really the next step in maintaining an uninterrupted stream of electricity for your homes and businesses. A dynamic DeSoto Parish ...

A coal mining company in Center commissioned a $31 million dragline Monday and is about six weeks from putting the massive coal miner to use. BNI Coal hosted the ceremony at its Center Mine. The ...

FRANKLIN, Kan. — For more than 60 years, a Page 618 Walking Dragline has been working to dig coal on land in northeastern Cherokee County — or just sitting on that land. Early in 2023, this ...

More than 700 tires rolling in unison will deliver BNI Coal’s 9.5 million-pound Liberty dragline to its new site. Using a method only done three or four times nationwide, BNI Coal is moving Liberty ...

Workers in Conroe were gearing up Tuesday to haul a colossal, 63.4-metric ton dragline excavator - essentially, a giant shovel - overnight to a coal mine near Austin. The 130-mile trip to Elgin was to ...

ALKOL, W.Va. — A very large piece of equipment that has played a significant role in the West Virginia coal industry in the last three decades will soon be turned off for the final time on top of a ...

COALPORT — The recent acquisitions of two dragline models topped the agenda of the Coalport Area Museum Commis-sion meeting held Aug. 20. Donated to the museum by the daughters of the late Leslie ...

A dynamic DeSoto Parish power plant—fueled by a brownish coal called lignite—is keeping two area utility companies in business and contributing to the local economy. Recently, SWEPCO moved a gigantic ...