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

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

A West Virginia coal miner was found dead Thursday after being trapped in a flooded mine for more than a week. He helped save ...

In 1959, miners in Pennsylvania faced a nightmare when the Susquehanna River broke into an underground coal mine. Water rushed in, trapping workers and destroying the industry in the region. This ...

In a small Appalachian community whose first settlers arrived in 1830, a place transformed by mining in the decades that ...

Veteran coal miner and crew leader Steve Lipscomb, 38, was found dead in the Rolling Thunder mine at 7:30am on Thursday, five ...

KALUSALE, Zambia—The worst day of Bathsheba Musole’s life started with a deafening crash when the 30-foot wall around a toxic-waste pool collapsed at the Chinese copper mine above her village. A ...

Lisa Emery, a respiratory therapist, is deeply concerned about West Virginia coal miners suffering from black lung disease.

The Trump administration added 10 new minerals — including metallurgical coal and uranium — to its critical minerals list.