The top mine safety official in one of China's major coal producing regions is under investigation for corruption following a ...

A County Durham grandad has been featured in a BBC documentary as he remains the last miner in Easington Colliery Brass Band.

It was on that day 33 years ago that tragedy struck in the Nottinghamshire village when miners Bill McCulloch, David Shelton ...

State regulators have approved exploratory drilling near the headwaters of the rugged flow that inspired “A River Runs Through It,” which is still recovering from a mining disaster more than 50 years ...

And so bricks made by Joseph Love’s collieries at Shincliffe and Houghall have been laid alongside those from Pease & Partner ...

Whether it's to do with potential golf courses, new developments, or the Ryder Cup, Hulton Park has very much been in the news recently.

More than 15 years after the 2010 Pike River coal mine disaster in New Zealand, there are indications that police may be close to announcing whether or not criminal charges will be laid for actions ...

Big Pit was a big working coal mine from 1880 until 1980. Three years after it shut down operations, it reopened as a museum with former miners returning as visitor guides. In the decades since, it ...

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UBS has linked a sharp rise in Chinese coal prices to a fatal mine disaster and the safety crackdown that followed. Prices of metallurgical coal, the coking coal used to make steel, are up about 33% ...

Randy Fogle lived by a simple philosophy after surviving the 2002 Quecreek Mine disaster. “Each day’s a good day you’re alive,” he told TribLive in 2012. Fogle, the crew foreman and the first of the ...

Coal mining was once a deadly job in China - a recent tragedy reminded the country of that time In Shanxi, the province that sits at the heart of China's coal-mining industry, there's long been a ...