Gold’s latest quarterly gains now seriously rival the rise seen in 1986, the year of the Chernobyl disaster. The comparison is powerful, yet it pales against the performance of gold miners ...

But war is always close, with an air raid siren sounding shortly after miners returned to the surface for lunch on Thursday. The coal they mine is used primarily to power Ukrainian electricity and ...

life as a coal miner in the 1900s, the Black Plague, a passenger on the Titanic, and a worker at Chernobyl in 1986. Most of ...