The grapes grow in lush land in northern France that is a former slag heap, the place where the waste from coal mines was dumped. The land is steeply sloped, making it difficult to use modern ...

ABERFAN, Wales -- An avalanche of rain-loosened coal slag cascaded down a Welsh mountainside today, burying a school, shops and homes in this mining village ... The slag heap is still creeping ...

A piece of lush land in Northern France is a former slag heap and is the place where the waste from coal mines was dumped. This past summer brought on a heatwave in France that scorched the land ...

The operator, Merthyr (South Wales) Limited, had proposed to extract the coal from the surface or from the slag heaps – once underground mines – scattered across the moor. Their remains still ...

Dobropillya's state-owned coal mines remain open but their output is ... live in a home at the foot of one of Dobropillya's many slag heaps. This one is nearly 500 feet high.