An artisanal mine collapsed in the Central African Republic on Thursday morning, killing eight people, according to miners who are at the scene. The collapse, which also injured five other people, ...
Fifty years ago today, an explosion at the Scotia coal mine in Letcher County, Kentucky, killed 15 miners. Two days later, a second methane ...
At 11:15 on the morning of March 9, 1976, Virgil Coots, a foreman at the Scotia coal mine in Letcher County, called to the ...
In March 1976, two explosions over two days rocked the Scotia coal mine in Eastern Kentucky, killing 26 men. Fifty years ...
An investigation following the disaster found that mines in southern West Virginia, including those in Wyoming, Boone, Cabell, Raleigh, Lincoln, Logan, McDowell, Mercer and Wayne counties, lacked ...
In 2010, the Upper Big Branch mine exploded. An investigation following the disaster found that mines in southern West ...
Cottonwood residents are concerned about black dust originating from a historic copper smelter slag pile. A company is crushing the slag, which contains heavy metals like arsenic, for industrial use, ...