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

Emergency services rushed to “a ground collapse” on level two of the mine in Vega de Rengos, around a mile from its entrance.

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

A major emergency operation is underway in northern Spain following the collapse of part of a coal mine in Asturias, where at ...

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 ...

Steve Lipscomb was a son, a father, a husband, a Marine, a man of faith, and a coal miner. Ten days ago, Lipscomb and his ...

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 ...