August 5, 2010, started as an ordinary shift—until a massive explosion sent the San José mine crashing down, trapping 33 miners 2,300 feet underground. Canada victory over USA most-watched NHL ...

A docudramatic account of the 2010 Chilean mine disaster is presented, where the thirty-three miners who went into the San José Mine in Copiapó, Chile in the middle of the Atacama Desert on ...

In the Mine Wars that erupted in southern West Virginia over the first two decades of the 20th century, coal miners and coal companies in West Virginia clashed in a series of brutal conflicts over ...

Union organizers told Mother Jones not to go to the coal mines on Laurel Creek. The strikes that started in West Virginia in June of 1902 had dragged on for months, and mine owners had only gotten ...

Rate of black lung disease among miners may be 10 times higher than reported Lung disease is a well-known deadly consequence of working in the coal industry. But a new NPR study finds miners are ...

After 100 years, the Barrackville Mine Explosion will finally receive its own monument. Members of the Barrackville community gathered at the Lions Community Building to commemorate the 100th ...