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A dangerous fire at the Grosvenor coal mine in central Queensland, which burned for the entirety of July, demonstrated the lethal conditions that mining workers are still subjected to under the ...

The blaze started decades ago when an old pile of coal waste spontaneously combusted, according to the Colorado Division of Reclamation, Mining and Safety. The smoldering 35-foot-high, football ...

After burning below Olyphant for two decades, the Dolph mine fire is extinguished as borough officials wait for construction to begin on millions of square feet of warehouses at a planned nearby ...

Last May, a large fire engulfed the La Esperanza gold mine in southern Peru, trapping workers underground. The blaze, the cause of which has yet to be definitively proven, tragically killed 27 workers ...

CORE, W.Va. — Federal Mine Safety Chief Chris Williamson, the head of MSHA, toured the West Virginia University Academy for Mine Training and Energy Technologies in Core Wednesday, National Mine ...

State workers have made an underground coal mine fire safer near Marshall and Cherryvale roads by doing mitigation work. The Lewis mine construction site just northeast of the intersection of Marshall ...

After nearly 2½ years of regulatory scrutiny and upgrades, the Morton Salt mine in New Iberia has been removed from a "safety watch" after improving its compliance with federal rules, U.S. officials ...

A fire caused by “improper disposal” of fireplace ashes in a mining pit outside a home in the Sugarloaf area was extinguished Wednesday afternoon, according to the Sugarloaf Fire Protection District.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Federal officials in white hard hats speak with miners in an Indiana coal mine in 2015. AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley President ...

Safety and security in the mining industry are of principal concern to organizational leaders. The dangers and risks to workers in both underground and open-pit mines are well-documented and include ...