Earlier this year the West Virginia Legislature passed a law eliminating work permit requirements for 14- and 15-year-olds ...

A scraper car and coal drag system ... explained that, as a child, he used to visit Nay Aug Park in Scranton, where his grandparents lived, and said he always thought the mine should be open.

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 ...

Days after the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) approved a controversial exploratory coal mining project in the Rocky Mountains, concerned residents protested in the Crowsnest Pass to voice their ...

During investigation, the police found that the boy had died and secretly buried in Kanchipuram. An FIR under relevant sections of the “the Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act, Child Labour Act ...

Mining company Signal Peak Energy sits atop a billion-ton coal reserve beneath Montana’s rugged Bull Mountains and ships 98% of the fuel it mines to Japan and South Korea ROUNDUP, Mont.

A former Boy Scout leader is accused of child molestation and creating child pornography, Georgia investigators said. Getty Images A former Boy Scout leader is accused of child sexual abuse and ...

Families of some of the 29 workers killed in the 2010 disaster in New Zealand are seeking to expose the full truth about how ...

Despite lingering distrust of the coal industry, it’s hard to imagine any economic revival in Southwest Virginia that doesn’t involve the people who ran the region’s mines. Some of the ...

2:12 Blood Tribe announces opposition to new coal mines in eastern slopes The project, located on an inactive legacy coal mine site in the Municipal District of Ranchland, was revived two years later.

where minors trafficked from neighbouring countries are subjected to forced labour and sexual abuse by criminal groups operating in defunct gold mines. The revelations surfaced recently following ...