Britain’s approval of its first new deep coal mine in decades was overturned in 2024 by London’s High Court. (Image courtesy of West Cumbria Mining.) ...

“Repurposing disused mines as sources of low-carbon heat will deliver both environmental and economic benefits to local communities.” The UK presently has a network of 23,000 abandoned deep ...

Rat-hole mining is banned by the Supreme Court. But its practice persists under the noses of government officials and ...

Late last year, a specialized camera was lowered into an almost 1.6-mile-deep mineshaft in South Africa ... still alive were desperate to exit the mine. It was the beginning of discussions about ...

All I know is how to mine coal,” said Yurii Nesterenko ... in the mine’s dim, nearly 2,000-foot-deep tunnels. “The earth itself kind of protects you,” said Volodymyr Kohanevych, who ...

The imminent presidency of Donald Trump looks set to boost the fortunes of deep-sea-mining as support for harvesting the world’s ocean floors for critical minerals grows, both in Congress and ...

A Boone County coal mine had a long history of safety and environmental violations leading up to a miner death there last ...

State regulators pulled a permit for a surface mine tied to West Virginia Republican Sen. Jim Justice’s family, citing a string of ongoing, unaddressed violations. A coal mine in West Virginia ...

QUETTA: A miner was killed in the Duki coal field area due to a mudslide inside a mine on Saturday, while officials confirmed that eight coal miners trapped 4,000 feet deep inside a collapsed mine ...

The Utah Inland Port Authority has added a coal mine to its development plan in Carbon and Emery counties. The Fossil Rock Mine, formerly called the Trail Mountain Mine, closed in 2001.