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

A massive search operation is underway in West Virginia, where officials say crews are "working around the clock" and ...

Coal-rock dynamic disasters caused by dynamic disturbance pose a serious threat to coal mine safety and infrastructure. In this paper, the dynamic compression test of coal is carried out around the ...

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

Emergency responders were hoping to use an underwater drone Sunday to reach a miner trapped deep inside a flooded West Virginia coal mine, authorities said.

(CNN) — Here’s a look at mine disasters, accidents and deaths in the United States. This is a list of notable mine disasters and is not all-inclusive. December 6, 1907 – Worst coal mine disaster in US ...