First Quantum Minerals suspended operations at its open-pit copper mine in Zambia after an employee was killed following an incident involving a dump truck.

Blackhall Rocks Beach continues to receive glowing reviews by visitors who say the area has been 'reclaimed' back from the ...

More than 40 million people in the U.S. were under heat alerts Friday, according to the National Weather Service.

A century later, the Coal Glen mine accident is still the deadliest industrial disaster ... who told him the explosion happened somewhere above them. The Durham Sun reported that Butler and another ...

BOOK LAUNCH: The book will be officially launched at a Q&A talk and signing, with the author in conversation with Wombwell poet Paul Brookes, at the National Coal Mining Museum, on Saturday ...

This footage provides a poignant view into the devastating impact of mining accidents and the early responses to occupational hazards in the mining industry. Email us at footage@avgeeks.com if you ...

He is pictured with Mr Beard's widow Marie and Jonathan Kindleysides from Beamish Museum A poignant reminder of one of the worst mining disasters in County Durham has been donated to a museum ...

A poignant reminder of one of the worst mining disasters in County Durham has been donated to a museum ahead of the anniversary of the tragedy. The explosion at West Stanley Colliery on 16 ...

And, although Scotland’s last deep coal mine remained open until 2002 and ... many had lost fathers or grandfathers to horrific accidents, their wives barely compensated before being evicted ...

Tom Dobbin is 97, and his life stretches back to a time when coal was king, when journalists went in search of scoops, and men were hanged for… ...

Coal in Velenje is extracted more than 500 meters (1,600 feet) below ground. The mine uses a method of extraction that it established in 1947 that is called the Velenje method, according to the ...

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