By bno - Jakarta Office A mudflow struck PT Freeport Indonesia’s Grasberg Block Cave underground mine in Tembagapura, Central ...

As the families of West Virginia miners mourn, many of them say their relatives loved working in the mines, despite the dangers.

Families at West Viringia mine explosion will have to wait more than 24 hours before rescue operations can resume. Survivor Stanley Stewart described the blast as feeling like "hurricane force winds." ...

At 4:07 p.m., May 19, 1928, the whistle blew at Mather Mine, alerting people of an emergency. The explosion that caused it, and the loss of life that followed over the coming days, continues to be ...

Maryland’s largest active underground coal mine changed hands last month after the mine’s previous operator, Canadian firm Corsa Coal, filed for bankruptcy and auctioned assets to pay creditors.

A column of fire rose more than 1,000 feet — nearly as tall as the John Hancock Center — above the Midwest's largest refinery ...

Rescue crews waited impatiently outside one of New Zealand's largest coal mines Friday night for the all-clear to begin a search for 27 men missing after a powerful gas explosion struck deep ...

At least 1.5 million tons of the poisonous substance escaped when a reservoir failed at the Sino-Metals Leach Zambia Ltd. mine.