A FREE new exhibition called Dancing coalfields is marking the 40th anniversary of the end of the British miners’ strike at the National Coal Mining Museum for England.

On a warm, sunny day late in August 2016, members of the Huber Breaker Preservation Society made a historic discovery. Tracks ...

Seven times the size of a miner, Then Gone (nicknamed George) is the latest piece by talented sculptor Ray Lonsdale who ...

TV presenter and County Durham 's own Matt Baker has this week unveiled a touching tribute to the long and rich mining ...

South Africa’s gold mining industry has shed 80% of its workforce over the past three-and-a-half decades. In 1988, more than ...

A rich history of a bygone era in Anderson County is on display in the town of Rocky Top, originally known as Coal Creek. A unique museum shows what life was like when ...

If you have ambitions of living comfortably or making a quick buck, then regional Queensland is where you need to work or ...

The Frank Slide remains one of the most sobering and fascinating chapters in Canadian history. This rockslide reshaped the ...

ITS rolling valleys and picturesque countryside attract more than half a million tourists a year. But despite its rich heritage as a coal and steel-mining area, pockets of deprivation have earned ...

A labourer working to extinguish a fire in Jharkhand lost his life on Tuesday evening when the ground collapsed, engulfing ...

May marks the anniversary of two of the most defining, but often overlooked, battles in American labor history: the Matewan ...

The Narwhal offers updates on the proposed expansion of the coal mine in Alberta, Canada, near Jasper National Park, and the ...