Coal mining is one of the most dangerous jobs, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Nearly every day, they face the risk of serious injury from cave-ins or other accidents. Besides ...

Peabody Energy Corp. is considering walking away from a $3.78 billion deal to acquire Anglo American Plc’s steelmaking coal assets after a fire at an Anglo mine in Australia. Peabody notified ...

FARMINGTON, N.M. – President Trump recently signed an executive order to try and reinvigorate coal mining in the U.S.. The Four Corners Region is home to the third-largest coal producer in the ...

A coal car loaded up at the Exhibition Coal Mine in Beckley, WV. New coal mine safety requirements from the Mine Safety and Health Administration were supposed to take effect this month until a ...

A coal car loaded up at the Exhibition Coal Mine in Beckley, WV. New coal mine safety requirements from the Mine Safety and Health Administration were supposed to take effect this month until a ...

About 200 workers at Nsimbi Mining Services, a company subcontracted by the Indian company Vulcan, which operates the gigantic open-cast coal mine in Moatize district, in the central Mozambican ...

Research in rock dust has resulted in safety changes to prevent explosions in underground mines …” Capito wrote. “NIOSH’s [CWHSP] studies respiratory disease and provides black lung screenings to coal ...

The plans, one in its Buffalo, Wyoming office, the other in its Miles City, Montana office, directed the BLM to stop issuing new coal mining leases in the Powder River Basin, a mineral-rich formation ...