An explosion in a coal mine in eastern Iran killed at least 34 workers and injured 17 others, officials said Sunday, marking one of the worst mining disasters in the country's history as others ...

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Half a century after the Kianga mine explosion killed 13 workers in central Queensland, a community gathers to remember the tragedy as survivors and experts raise fresh concerns about ongoing safety ...

What drives Trump’s politics is nostalgia for the age of coal, when dirty fuel and no environmental regulations created his ...

Benny Willingham worked as a miner for 30 years before he was killed. April 6, 2010 — -- Many of the men who died in the depths of a West Virginia coal mine Monday often discussed with family ...

Rescuers searching for miners trapped by a coal mine explosion in northeast China found six more bodies early Wednesday, bringing the death toll in the country's worst mining disaster in decades to ...

BEIJING (AP) – A coal mine explosion in eastern China has killed at least 14 people just days after a blast in the country’s southwest left 44 dead. The official Xinhua News Agency said dozens of ...

HOLMES MILL, Ky. — An explosion in an eastern Kentucky coal mine killed five miners Saturday, Gov. Ernie Fletcher said. A sixth miner was able to walk away from the blast and out of the mine on his ...

JAKARTA (Reuters) - An explosion at a coal mine in Indonesia's Sumatra island has killed one person and rescuers were trying to reach at least 30 miners feared trapped underground, an official said on ...