All the headlines from our Mining Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 11 2018 // West Virginia regulators say a 43-year-old coal miner has been killed on the job.The Office of Miners’ Health, Safety and Training says shuttle car operator Ronald R. Taylor of Belington died of head injuries when he...
Jun 1 2018 // As a young man, Barry Shrewsbury dug coal in the West Virginia mines and spent his time off hunting and fishing in the rolling hills.Now, at 62, he struggles to breathe and accomplish basic tasks such as shopping and...
May 6 2018 // Rescue teams have confirmed the death of a second Polish coal miner and are searching for three more trapped nearly a kilometer underground after a quake, the chief executive of the mine owner said.The quake hit the...
Apr 30 2018 // Two former coal miners in Kentucky who claimed defective dust masks led to their debilitating black-lung disease were awarded $67.5 million in damages in their civil lawsuit.The Lexington Herald-Leader reported that a...
Apr 10 2018 // A lawsuit filed by a West Virginia miner’s widow says the Mine Safety and Health Administration didn’t do enough to stop the Upper Big Branch Mine disaster.The Charleston Gazette-Mail reports Carolyn Diana...
Mar 14 2018 // A northern Idaho mine could be put back into operation following the settlement of a federal lawsuit against the mine’s owner.The Spokesman-Review reported a settlement agreement was filed Monday in federal court in...
Mar 13 2018 // Anglo American Plc’s Brazilian iron-ore mine suffered operational delays after a pipeline ruptured Monday morning, the company confirmed by email.The good news is that no one was hurt, the company said. The troubling...
Mar 5 2018 // A new research letter published in a medical journal details hundreds of cases of black lung disease in the Central Appalachian coalfields.Three clinics in southwestern Virginia identified 416 coal miners with the disease...
Feb 16 2018 // Rocky Mountain Power has been cited with a safety violation for the death of a miner in September.Jaimie Olivas was killed in the Bridger Underground Coal Mine when part of a wall of coal collapsed on him. The Casper...
Feb 13 2018 // A new research letter published in a medical journal details hundreds of cases of black lung disease in the Central Appalachian coalfields.Three clinics in southwestern Virginia identified 416 coal miners with the disease...
Feb 9 2018 // The University of Arizona’s public health college and its mineral resources institute will use a $1.6 million grant to help improve mine safety training.The federal grant announced this week will be used to develop...
Feb 8 2018 // Authorities say a coal miner has been killed at an underground mine in northern West Virginia.The West Virginia Office of Miners’ Health, Safety and Training says the incident occurred shortly before 4 a.m. Tuesday...
Feb 5 2018 // All the miners who were trapped underground for more than 24 hours after a storm knocked out power lines supplying electricity to the Beatrix gold mine in South Africa have been rescued, operator Sibanye-Stillwater said on...
Jan 25 2018 // A federal investigation has concluded a worker wasn’t following safety protocols when he was killed last year in a limestone mine collapse in Iowa’s Scott County. The Quad-City Times reports a Mine Safety and...
Dec 15 2017 // PolyMet Mining Corp. is offering the state a $544 million package of financial assurances to serve as an insurance policy to protect taxpayers from potentially having to cover the costs of closing and cleaning up a...
Dec 5 2017 // The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said last Friday it would not act on a proposal to require hardrock mining companies to show they can afford to clean up their sites.“EPA is confident that modern industry...
Dec 1 2017 // West Virginia mining officials say that a 28-year-old equipment operator for a coal mining company has died.The Office of Miners’ Health, Safety and Training says the incident occurred about 3 p.m. Tuesday on...
Nov 30 2017 // Some mines in the next decade will run without humans and instead rely on robots, virtual models and sensors, according to Anglo American Plc.Anglo is betting on technology, such as computerized drills with...
Oct 25 2017 // State and federal investigators are trying to determine what killed a 48-year-old miner found Monday at a coal mining operation in Raleigh County.James Ray Adkins of Colcord, West Virginia, was discovered missing at...
Oct 23 2017 // The retired coal company executive from West Virginia chosen by Republican President Trump to oversee U.S. mining safety says his first priority is preventing people from getting hurt and that he replaced the managers of a...