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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

Rescue crews in West Virginia made progress in clearing a flooded coal mine amid a desperate search for a worker who's been ...

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 ...

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 ...