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 ...

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

The company Polymetals announced yesterday that “mining and milling operations have successfully recommenced” and that ...

Benny Willingham worked as a miner for 30 years before he was killed. April 6, 2010 — -- Many of the men who died in the depths of a West Virginia coal mine Monday often discussed with family ...

GUJIAO, China — Rescuers wearing headlamps and oxygen backpacks carried dozens of miners to safety Sunday after a gas explosion at a coal mine in northern China killed at least 74. The blast at the ...

Evidence of the dust surfaced during an investigation into the West Virginia coal mine's explosion in April. Regulations require the removal or... The search for a cause of April's deadly coal mine ...

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 ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Faced with a small methane gas fire that couldn't be extinguished in a highly volatile underground mine, at least two victims of the country's deadliest coal mine explosion in ...