Coal mining has produced some of the deadliest industrial accidents in modern history. From methane explosions and coal dust ignition to structural collapse and flooding, the industry’s worst ...

In Shanxi, the province that sits at the heart of China's coal-mining industry, there's long been a saying: "Only go down a coal pit when you have no other way out." For decades, life in these pits ...

In the worst mining disaster in China since 2009, 82 workers were killed in a catastrophic gas explosion in a coal mine in Shanxi province last Friday. Over 120 workers were hospitalised, several in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, medical staff attend to an injured worker at a hospital in the aftermath of an ...

For working faces in soft coal seams closely (especially directly) overlain by hard rock strata, intense dynamic disturbances induced by roof fracturing not only increase the susceptibility of coal ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At least 90 people were killed when a gas explosion struck a coal mine in northern China's Shanxi province, marking one of the ...

The body of Steve Lipscomb, a 38-year-old father and veteran coal miner, who had been trapped underground in the Rolling Thunder Mine in West Virginia for five days, was recovered Thursday morning, ...

BEIJING (AP) — A gas explosion at a coal mine in China’s northern Shanxi province killed at least 82 people, local officials said Saturday, in what was the country’s deadliest mining accident in ...