The third death was confirmed by a Utah Department of Natural Resources spokeswoman. All of the rescue workers in the mine at the time of the incident have been accounted for and ...

Victims can drown in flooded shafts, get lost in underground tunnels or perish from poisonous gases present in many old coal mines. Mine shafts can extend hundreds of feet beneath the surface and ...

Underground tours exploring coal mining in West Yorkshire have resumed, after being halted for more than three months to ...

The federal government wants the number of offices that oversee U.S. mine safety laws to align more with a shrinking coal ...

Just because a mine has been exhausted of its ore, that doesn't necessarily mean it has no value. A 2023 study suggests that the shafts of such abandoned mines could serve as energy-storing ...

The accident occurred at Kunyuan Coal Mine in Jixi's Hengshan district at 2:36 pm on Dec 20, 2023, when a train of five mine ...

During the tour you’ll see the original 700-foot-deep mine shaft – once contracted to produce 90,000 tons of anthracite coal – as well as a former miner's hospital, among other highlights.