There are many mine disasters that have occurred in the Mountain State throughout the years. One such disaster is the Sago ...

The coal-producing areas of West Virginia have been traditionally defined as fields, each field corresponding to a given geographical location or region of the state. Our readers should note that a ...

5 Block coal is mined, mostly in eastern Kanawha and Clay counties. Development of the Kanawha Coal Field The Kanawha Coal Field is one of the oldest fields in West Virginia. The first commercial ...

A methane gas explosion caused a mine to collapse in a remote area in southwest Pakistan, trapping at least 12 miners, ...

The following events happened on these dates in West Virginia history. To read more, go to e-WV: The West Virginia ...

The country's top mine safety expert was part of a panel that appeared Tuesday afternoon in a Senate hearing about the recent explosion that killed 29 West Virginia coal miners in the worst U.S ...

Islamabad: Two miners have been killed when a coal mine collapsed in Pakistan‘s restive Balochistan province, the second mining disaster in the area within a week. The tragedy hit on Sunday in the ...

December of 1907 was unusually deadly when it comes to mine disasters in the ... the companies mining the black coal veins under Western Pennsylvania and West Virginia. On December 6, the Monongah ...

which commemorates the Monongah Mine Disaster of 1907, but one hasn’t taken place recently. He wants to see one return. Davis is adamant about preserving West Virginia’s coal heritage.

(WCYB) — A coal mining company with operations in Southwest Virginia has closed down, which could mean dozens of people are now out of work. Coking Coal LLC, which provides coal for use in iron ...

Out of the nine labourers who were trapped in the coal mine, one is a national of Nepal, one from West Bengal and the rest hail from different parts of Assam. They have been identified as Ganga ...