Wood timbers caught fire inside the mine vein known as the 11-foot vein of the Mount Lookout Colliery owned by the Temple Anthracite Coal Co in Wyoming on May 27, 1926. Sixty three miners were deep in ...

An engraving showing child labour in a Welsh coal mine. The child on the left is a 'trapper' - they were responsible for opening and closing ventilation trap doors. Coal mining was often a family ...