There is an aspect of coal mining that gets relatively little attention, even though it is growing in popularity, It is with this method that I will conclude this series on mining, and its precursor ...

Mining plays a vital role in everyone’s daily lives. The material extracted by surface mining operations creates energy and is used by manufacturers to develop machinery, technology and the ...

Don Downard worked 35 years in southern Illinois coal mines to pay for his modest ranch home in rural West Frankfort. Like many in coal-rich Franklin County, he started in the mines as an eager young ...

With equipment mobilization now underway and development contracts awarded, the Cadomin project is advancing underground ...

PEMBROKE PARK — A mining process could be used to clean up what state authorities call one of the worst hazardous waste sites in the nation. The state Department of Environmental Regulation and the ...

Real-world predictive data mining (classification or regression) problems are often cost sensitive, meaning that different types of prediction errors are not equally costly. While cost-sensitive ...

To many big companies, you aren't just a customer, but are described by multiple "dimensions" of information within a computer database. Now, a computer scientist has devised a new method for simpler, ...