A miner who was trapped by rising flood waters while assisting others to safety on Saturday remains missing as divers and ...

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

SWISS, W.Va. — The search of a flooded coal mine for a missing miner in Nicholas County is a painfully slow process.

The collapse of an 11-story coal mining plant in Martin County left two workers trapped under the rubble as crews worked to free them Wednesday. One of the workers has since been confirmed dead. But ...

A list of some recent fatal mine disasters around the world: — 2013: 83 workers are buried by a massive landslide at a gold mining site in a mountainous area of Tibet, east of Lhasa, according to ...

—1942: China’s northeast is the site of the world’s deadliest coal mine disaster when an accident kills 1,549 miners in Japanese-occupied Manchuria during World War II. —1906: A dust explosion in a ...

PLYMOUTH – As most people get ready to celebrate Valentine’s Day, a local man feels another observance should be noted today. Stephen Kondrad, 55, who grew up in Plymouth, moved out of the ...

WELLINGTON, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Twenty-nine miners remain trapped in a remote New Zealand coal mine, a day after an explosion ripped through the colliery. [ID:nSGE6AI0KL] Mining disasters account for ...

WELLINGTON (Reuters) - Twenty-nine miners remain trapped in a remote New Zealand coal mine, a day after an explosion ripped through the colliery. Mining disasters account for an estimated 12,000 ...