1,106,200. A report issued last week by the Ministry of Labor placed the number of miners unemployed as a result of the continued British coal strike (TIME, May 10 et seq.) at 1,106,200. 3½ Hours. The ...

RATCLIFFE-ON-SOAR, England — When the coal-fired turbines at this sprawling power plant north of London went silent this week, the skies above its eight giant steam stacks finally cleared — and ...

Coal-rock dynamic disasters caused by dynamic disturbance pose a serious threat to coal mine safety and infrastructure. In this paper, the dynamic compression test of coal is carried out around 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 ...

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 ...

Four august gentlemen have been inspecting the British coal industry with statistical microscopes since last August. Chairmaned by the noted industrialist, Sir Herbert Samuel, they constitute the ...