Greece is currently the world’s 12th largest producer of lignite — known as brown coal — mining 36 million tons annually, according to US federal government energy data.

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A fire engulfed a conveyer belt at Poland’s largest brown coal mine Saturday before it was extinguished, and a linked power plant will have one of its units shut because ...

But how these yellow-amber crumbs formed in the Mathias mine left Eichhorn baffled. Brown coal, also called lignite, is one of the dirtiest fossil fuels and has a low concentration of carbon.

Engineers from Monash University are saying they have found a better way to strengthen critical minerals and rare earths ...

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland's government on Monday defied an injunction by the top European Union court that ordered the immediate closure of a major brown coal mine, with officials saying it ...

As part of their rehabilitation strategies, the owners of Victoria's three brown-coal mines plan to fill the mines with water and turn them into lakes. It would take a total of 2,354 gigalitres of ...

Researchers at Australia's Monash University in Melbourne have developed a cleaner, more efficient method to extract rare ...

WARSAW, Poland — Firefighters in central Poland say 13 units are fighting flames that have engulfed a conveyer belt at Poland’s largest brown coal mine in Belchatow. The fire broke out at ...

WARSAW – A fire engulfed a conveyer belt at Poland’s largest brown coal mine Saturday before it was extinguished, and a linked power plant will have one of its units shut because the fire ...

European Union’s top court has on Friday, May 21, 2021 ordered Poland to immediately stop extracting brown coal at the Turow mine on the border with the Czech Republic and Germany.

Updated: May 24, 2021 / 12:22 PM CDT FILE – This Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2019 file photo shows the Turow lignite coal mine and Turow power plant near the town of Bogatynia, Poland.