The United Mine Workers of America held a memorial service at the Willow Grove Mine site, honoring 72 miners who lost their ...

Dozens of people stood stoically around the Willow Grove Mine Memorial as speakers recounted the history of the explosion and ...

Virginia’s U.S. senators have expressed concern to federal mine safety regulators over their response to a Nicholas County ...

Fifty years ago today, an explosion at the Scotia coal mine in Letcher County, Kentucky, killed 15 miners. Two days later, a second methane ...

Here is a look at mine disasters, accidents and deaths in the United States. This is a list of notable mine disasters and is not all-inclusive. Timeline December 6, 1907 – Worst coal mine disaster in ...

Natural gas is one of the most dangerous compounds to work with. The gas is a fuel mixture composed primarily of methane, ...

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 ...

More than 3,000 objects from the late 1800s found buried under a ski resort in Utah, marking a mining town's history ...

HELENA, Mont. — Sacrifices made to win WWII weren't just overseas. Contributions to manufacture iron and other essentials for the war effort were produced on the home front. At the height of WWII, The ...

Journalists investigating a fatal mining disaster in eastern Congo were denied access, tightening a dangerous blackout around a mineral-fuelled conflict. This statement was originally published on ipi ...