Residents in a sparsely populated area of Iron County are speaking out against a contractor that's asking Iron County to allow them to build a mine in the area.

Residents in a sparsely populated area of Iron County are speaking out against a contractor that's asking Iron County to allow them to build a mine in the area.

A Utah man fell down an abandoned mine and sustained what has been described as "substantial head trauma" in the process.

As of 2020, Carbon County had no active coal mines, and only four, including Fossil Rock, continue to operate in Emery. Coal jobs in Utah fell by half from the early 1980s to the 1990s.