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

Coal miners descend feets below the surface to extract the valuable black diamond, facing extreme conditions and utilizing ...

Following the “gradual decline of the coal mines over many years” and “closure of the last deep coal mine in December, 2015”, the company was able to “expand and diversify to meet the ...

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.) ...

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 ...

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 ...

Upper Silesia, a region in southern Poland with long historic ties to the coal industry, is marked by the blood, sweat, and tears of miners. Now, designers are taking this “black gold” and ...

The drive is in connection with the flooding of a 90-metre-deep rat-hole coal mine on January 6, trapping nine miners. The bodies of four miners were retrieved by January 10 but five others remain ...