On the afternoon of 19 November 2010, an explosion ripped through the remote Pike River mine on the West Coast of the South ...

An explosion in a coal mine in eastern Iran killed at least 34 workers and injured 17 others, officials said Sunday, marking one of the worst mining disasters in the country's history as others ...

One thousand feet underground, Mike Payton has come 200 feet away from where the victims of the 1968 Farmington No. 9 Mine ...

The Beaconsfield and Grosvenor disasters are just two among many which demonstrate that mining workers cannot entrust their ...

BEIJING (AP) -- A gas explosion at a coal mine in southwest China has killed nine miners and trapped dozens more. China's official Xinhua News Agency says the Xiaojiawan coal mine in Sichuan ...

A mining crew hit an unknown pocket of water on Saturday about three-quarters of a mile into the mine, which flooded after an ...

A miner who was trapped by rising flood waters while assisting others to safety on Saturday remains missing as divers and ...

Mining operations have resumed in a Bowen Basin underground mine for the first time since it was shut down due to high carbon ...

These are the real heroes we should look up to. As a West Virginia native, I grew up around coal mining. I still remember when my grandparents had a coal house in their garage, and seeing my grandpa ...