MOSCOW (AP) – A methane gas leak at a coal mine in Russia’s far north triggered three explosions that ignited a raging fire and partially collapsed the mine, killing 36 people, officials said Sunday.

MADRID (AP) — An accident at a mine in Spain’s northern Asturias region killed at least five people on Monday morning and injured another four, according to the region’s emergency services authority.

Nabanna, the administrative headquarters of the West Bengal government in Howrah, has sought a detailed report from the district civil defence and disaster management department in Asansol regarding ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- State mining officials are citing Patriot Coal for serious violations during a severe coal burst that killed two miners in May. The enforcement action by the state Office of ...

The 1976 Scotia disasters in Letcher County transformed U.S. mine rules. Fifty years later, the rescuers were honored.

FAIRMONT — A collision between two pieces of machinery injured three miners Wednesday morning at the Loveridge No. 22 coal mine, at the Johnny Cake Mine Portal in Fairview. EMS took two of the three ...

PESHAWAR — Seven miners were killed when the roof of a coal mine collapsed in a tribal region of northwest Pakistan, officials said on Monday. The accident happened on Sunday night in the Dowli area ...

TREMONT, Pa. (AP) -- A coal mine accident, possibly an explosion, killed a miner Monday, but five others escaped, authorities said. The incident happened 2,300 feet underground at the R&D Coal Co.