Now that Former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship ... the recent explosion that killed 29 West Virginia coal miners in the worst U.S. mining disaster in four… More than a week after an explosion ...

But an hour and 37 minutes after their shift began, all but three of the miners were dead or dying in the worst coal mine disaster in Montana history. They were survived by 58 widows and 125 children.

China's official state news agency Xinhua has reported that three coal mine workers were killed in northwestern China's Gansu ...

the 22-year-old who lost his father in the disaster. The mine, which had unified the community, would reopen in June, but Bearcreek was never the same. In 1953, the Montana Iron and Coal Co. shut ...

The state commission that investigated the explosion made several suggestions, expanding rock-dusting to every part of the mine, to prevent coal dust from igniting. That became a reality, a U.S.

they have no comprehension we are still burning so much coal." Steve Stout, author of "Black Damp: The Story of the Cherry Mining Disaster," will speak at 2 p.m. April 19 at the Normal Public ...

HOLMES MILL, Ky. — An explosion in an eastern Kentucky coal mine killed five miners Saturday, Gov. Ernie Fletcher said. A sixth miner was able to walk away from the blast and out of the mine on ...

BEIJING (AP) — Water rushed into a coal mine in northwestern China’s Gansu province, leaving three workers dead, official state news agency Xinhua reported Tuesday. There were 133 people ...