Nearly a half-century after it began, the voracious mine fire that doomed this coal town in the mountains of northeastern Pennsylvania continues to burn hundreds of feet underground, uncontrolled and uncontrollable.
The fire began in 1962 at the town dump and ignited an exposed coal vein, eventually forcing an exodus that emptied Centralia of more than [...]

Newly unemployed mine workers packed a union hall here Tuesday, looking for work, unemployment benefits and friendly faces after a Canadian company shut down its increasingly costly coal field.
“Those young men down there just kind of had like a glaze over their eyes, it was such a shock to them,” said Bob Guenther, president of [...]

The huge tires that keep the global mining industry rolling are in short supply, causing operators of the Centralia coal mine to rethink the way they do business at the sprawling, 10,000-acre mine that hugs the Thurston-Lewis county line.
As the demand for raw materials such as coal and metals grows to feed the thirsty, growing [...]