On Aug. 31, MSHA published a proposed rule in the Federal Register to require underground coal mines to equip continuous mining machines with proximity detection systems in order to protect miners ...

Australia is a major coal producing country, and its second biggest state for the fuel, New South Wales, has banned new coal ...

After nearly 250 years, coal mining has ended in the Ostrava-Karviná basin, closing a chapter that shaped the region’s ...

In an early scene from the Oscar-winning “Harlan County U.S.A.,” a piece of technology is shown swallowing coal miners by the dozen. One after the other, we see helmeted workers merge their prone ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The body of a coal miner was found early Thursday in a mine that flooded in southern West Virginia, Gov. Patrick Morrisey said. Machines had been pumping water out of Alpha ...