She said that since the centenary of the pit explosion seven years ago, the group had been "doing their best to make it a ...

Forty-five years after the Jefferson Island Mine Disaster, one of the survivors shared what she remembers from the day Lake ...

One thousand feet underground, Mike Payton has come 200 feet away from where the victims of the 1968 Farmington No. 9 Mine ...

ELY TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WLUC) - Ely Township is creating a memorial park to commemorate the lives lost in Michigan’s most deadly ...

At least six illegal miners, commonly referred to as 'galamseyers', are feared dead after being trapped and suffocated deep ...

BARRACKVILLE — When Barrackville community leaders began putting together a memorial for victims of the town's mine disasters in March, Diana Marple thought it would take five years of $1,000 ...

These are the real heroes we should look up to. As a West Virginia native, I grew up around coal mining. I still remember when my grandparents had a coal house in their garage, and seeing my grandpa ...

Mining company BHP has been found liable for a 2015 dam collapse in Brazil, known as the country's worst-ever environmental ...

On the afternoon of 19 November 2010, an explosion ripped through the remote Pike River mine on the West Coast of the South ...

A High Court in the United Kingdom has ruled that BHP was responsible for the Mariana dam collapse, after the company was ...

Two tragic mining accidents in Spain and Congo highlight the serious safety issues and precarious working conditions in the ...

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 ...