Sonny Olsen looks back on his unexpected role as spokesman for the families of miners who died in the Crandall Canyon Mine ...

With coal prices on the up, there’s a cohort of Queensland coal miners – including one billionaire – in the mix to buy for ...

Families and community leaders gathered in Beckley on Monday to mark the 16th anniversary of the Upper Big Branch Mine disaster, the deadliest coal mining disaster in the United States in forty years.

A seismic event detected in Tuscaloosa County on Friday has been determined to be a mine collapse rather than an earthquake, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). Sign up for our Newsletters ...

Peddapalli: Stepping down into a coal mine is not something that many have had a chance to do. Except for in a handful of movies or in some rare documentaries, the interiors of a mine, stretching deep ...

As of 2 pm Friday, six people have been confirmed dead and 47 others are still missing after a slope collapsed at an open-pit ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- It's hard to believe that it's been a decade since the Sago Mine disaster left a dark cloud over West Virginia. On January 2, 2006, at the International Coal Group's mine just ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A handful of coal. (Getty Images) A mine manager from Kentucky pleaded guilty last week to conspiring to cover up a fire and keep ...

FAIRMONT — One thousand feet underground, Mike Payton has come 200 feet away from where the victims of the 1968 Farmington No. 9 Mine Disaster took place. "The coal they were mining is the same coal I ...