South Korea's National Assembly speaker has called on the Japanese government to consider DNA testing of remains found at the ...

MOSCOW (AP) – A methane gas leak at a coal mine in Russia’s far north triggered three explosions that ignited a raging fire and partially collapsed the mine, killing 36 people, officials said Sunday.

FAIRVIEW, W.Va (WDTV) - Three miners were injured in an accident at a Marion County coal mine Wednesday morning. Two vehicles collided head-on on the tracks in the Loveridge Coal Mine in Fairview at ...

DRENNEN, W.Va. — A preliminary report from the federal Mine Safety Health and Administration says Nicholas County coal miner ...

In March, a blast at another Asturias coal mine killed five people and seriously injured four others, Spain's deadliest mining accident in decades. Mining has for centuries been a major industry in ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Federal mining officials are citing Patriot Coal for serious violations during a severe coal burst that killed two miners in May. The federal Mine Safety and Health Administration ...

BRUCEVILLE, Ind. (WTWO/WAWV) — Update: According to Knox County Sheriff Doug Vantlin, first responders were called to the Sunrise Coal Mine One, Portal Two in Knox County for an accident involving a ...

BEIJING (AP) – China’s state news agency says 15 miners were killed and three others hurt when the mine carriages they were in plunged into a tunnel. Xinhua said the accident happened early Thursday ...

LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) — An accident in a coal mine in northeastern Slovenia killed at least one miner and left two others missing, officials said Tuesday. Water suddenly rushed into the mine in the ...

BEIJING, China -- A coal mine accident killed 22 people in the southwestern Chinese city of Chongqing, the city's news office said in an online statement Wednesday. The accident that took place ...

Jan. 5, 2006— -- Out of one of the toughest and most dangerous jobs in the world have come generations of powerful stories, almost all hinging on life and death and the suspense of waiting. "You ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - At least 25 coal miners in north China suffocated after illegally stored explosives caught fire, generating toxic gas, Xinhua news agency said on Monday. Only two of the 36 miners ...