Its members are protesting against job losses at the Zululand Anthracite Colliery. More than 1,000 employees are set to be retrenched. The union will hand over a memorandum at the Durban City Hall.

Aberpergwm Colliery, in the Vale of Neath, has been in operation in some form since the 1800s and the new plans would see conditions lifted from the licence for an area covering 1,131 hectares to ...

GIANT canaries, drummers and a funeral march all descended on the Senedd in the latest twist in Wales’ long history with coal.

Extinction Rebellion Cymru activists have taken action at Aberpergwm mine to protest against a new license its been given to extract another forty million tonnes of coal. Around 50 activists from ...

Aberpergwm colliery given go-ahead to mine 40 million tonnes despite Welsh Government disapproval The UK Government has accepted a license application - but the Welsh Government is not happy about ...

A Neath Port Talbot colliery is to be mothballed and 60 workers will be axed, according to a union. Aberpergwm Colliery, near Glynneath, which is owned by American company Walter Energy, opened a ...

Sixty jobs could be at risk at Aberpergwm Colliery in Neath Port Talbot according to reports. A 30-day consultation on proposals to mothball the mine is reported to be due to start on Friday.

Walter Energy announced yesterday it was starting worker consultation over plans to suspend mining operations at its Aberpergwm Colliery in the Vale of Neath.

Walter Energy is concerned about the implications of the plan for a wind farm near its Aberpergwm Colliery, near Glynneath, which it says could "sterilise" land for mining.

The incident occurred seven weeks to the day after four miners were killed at the Gleision colliery, another opencast mine, just a few miles from Aberpergwm.