Like most of the mining village lads who left school in the very early 80s, I assumed that I’d get a job at the pit.

Once nearly eradicated, the “old man’s disease” is back and suffocating younger miners. Federal cuts risk putting a solution further out of reach.

Since 1970, more than 75,000 miners have died of black lung disease. Now, researchers working to prevent those deaths get ...

The Department of the Interior Friday announced approval of a mining plan modification for Bull Mountains coal mine in Montana. It authorizes Signal Peak Energy, LLC to mine roughly 22.8 million ...

Learn why coal miner Brad McGarry was fatally shot in his Bellaire, Ohio, home by his best friend David Kinney, and about the ...

Ranchi: Coal India arm Central Coalfields Ltd plans to bring two new coal mines into production in the current financial year ...

OAK GROVE, Ala.—A coal miner named Jose Antonio M. Lara died early Wednesday morning following a rock collapse inside the Oak Grove mine, a facility in Jefferson County, just southwest of ...

Timothy Novotney was a teenager in Hazleton when his friend moved into a house with a steel door in the basement.

A miner has been hospitalised after being crushed underground at Appin coal mine in Sydney’s southwest. A miner has been hospitalised after being crushed underground at Appin coal mine in Sydney’s ...

Signal Peak Mine opponents have asked the nation’s top surface mine enforcement agency and the U.S. attorney for Montana to pause activity at the southcentral Montana coal operation until it can ...

Like most of the mining village lads who left school in the very early-80s, I assumed that I’d get a job at the pit.