THE ongoing rehabilitation of the Bulawayo-Victoria Falls Highway, together with the proposed upgrade of the Beitbridge-Bulawayo Road under a public-private partnership (PPP) model, is expected to ...

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Two miners whose jobs included watching for safety hazards inside the Sago Mine before the deadly explosion last January committed suicide in the past month. Neither man had been ...

Deep beneath the English countryside, a group of miners began what should have been another routine shift. Within hours, an ...

Floyd Simcox died in June 1925. He had been injured earlier in a coal mining accident at the Obey City mines near his home in ...

As President Trump tries to revive the United States coal industry, research has found that closing a coal facility can ...

The northernmost town in the world, Longyearbyen, is 800 miles from the North Pole, but home to over 2,000 people.

Starting in the 1880s, two groups rushed into the central Appalachian Mountains: Industrialists seeking coal, and missionaries seeking moral reform. Both changed the region forever, and their stories ...

Excessive carbon monoxide levels at a mine in Chongqing have trapped 23 people underground, China's official Xinhua news agency reported on Friday, in the second such accident in the southwestern ...

Sixteen people were killed in a southwest China coal mine accident on Sunday, the official Xinhua news agency said, the latest accident in a country with a poor history of industrial safety.

The blaze broke out in the early hours of Nov 16, 2023 in a bathroom on the second floor of a dormitory and bathhouse ...

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has said coal mining is becoming one of Nigeria’s fastest-growing sectors. He said coal mining recovered dramatically from a 22 per cent decline in the first quarter to ...

President Donald Trump came into office promising to reverse the long decline of coal. Now he’s taking action with a plan to pour money into coal-burning plants and open federal lands to mining. But ...