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The victims were among 16 miners injured at the Knurow-Szczyglowice coal mine on Wednesday, when methane gas ignited about 850 metres below ground level.
Few Americans follow the nation’s lithium-mining industry as closely as Patrick Donnelly. Since 2021, he has set up 30 or so Google Alerts for variations on...
The mine, near the frontline city of Pokrovsk, produced coking coal crucial for Ukraine’s steel industry. It kept running until the very last moment, when Russian...
At least 100 illegal miners have died and more than 400 remain trapped underground after a months-long standoff with police, rights groups say.
“The Lady of the Mine,” by Sergei Lebedev, takes place during Russia’s 2014 invasion.
Up to 4,000 illegal miners are estimated to be underground in an abandoned mine while South African authorities try to clear them out and arrest them.
A methane leak set off the explosion, killing at least 51 people, the country’s official media said.
A methane leak sparked a deadly explosion at a coal mine in eastern Iran, with the country's President Masoud Pezeshkian saying emergency service personnel were sent...
On a recent morning in eastern Ukraine, Karina Yatsina, a mine worker, was busy operating a conveyor belt in a dim, 1,200-foot-deep tunnel. Lights flickered at...
Seventy years ago, the United States was the world’s leading producer of fluorite, a brilliantly multicolored mineral essential to industries such as steel. But the last...
