MAHANOY CITY, Pa. (AP) — When coal was king, its castle was the breaker — an imposing fortress that crushed, washed and sized billions of tons of Pennsylvania anthracite for use in factories, ...

Coal breakers made it possible. Invented in the 1840s, breakers transformed large, hard-to-ignite chunks of raw anthracite into a variety of smaller sizes suitable for smelting iron, propelling a ...

Schuylkill County lost a devoted historian, coal mining re-enactor and veterans advocate with the recent passing of John Stuart “Stu” Richards, of Orwigsburg. Richards passed away following a ...

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 was capable ...

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 ...

Several projects are planned for this year at the Anthracite Miners’ Memorial Park in Ashley. At the same time, the park’s founding entity, the Huber Breaker Preservation Society, is seeking new ...

Above, a crew from Brayer’s Auto Service and Towing finishes moving an anthracite coal washer called a Menzies Cone onto a flatbed truck Thursday from the site of the former Moffat Breaker in Taylor.

The coal industry was still booming 50 years ago. In that era, approximately 45,442,000 net tons of anthracite coal were produced in Pennsylvania, where 75,377 people were employed in the anthracite ...