The federal government is working on regulations for U.S. mines which includes reducing exposure to silica dust for all miners — not just coal miners. Black lung is an incurable, deadly disease ...

Minnesota-based Talon Metals and Westmoreland Mining Co. signed an agreement Wednesday that gives Talon the sole rights to ...

YULIN, China, April 28 (Reuters) - China is pushing automated technology to improve the safety and efficiency of its coal mining industry, the world's largest, which has long been plagued by ...

Safety advocates are bemoaning the delay of new measures to protect coal miners. On Tuesday, as coal miners crowded into the Oval Office to watch President Donald Trump sign an executive order ...

Down a long gravel road, tucked into the hills in West Virginia, is a low-slung building where researchers are extracting essential elements from an old coal mine that they hope will strengthen ...