Hyderabad: Telangana accounted for nearly 70% of all serious accidents reported in coal mines across India in 2025, raising concerns over safety practices in the state’s mining operations, according ...

The Yubari New Coal Mine gas outburst accident is about to reach its 45th anniversary. October 16, 1981. 93 deaths. Of these, 59 were left in the pit for water injection to extinguish the fire. It was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rescuers work at the site following a gas explosion at Liushenyu coal mine in Qinyuan county, Shanxi province, China May 23, 2026.

BEIJING--The top mine safety official in one of China’s major coal producing regions is under investigation for corruption following a gas explosion that killed 82 workers in May. Hu Haijun, the ...

In Shanxi, the province that sits at the heart of China's coal-mining industry, there's long been a saying: "Only go down a coal pit when you have no other way out." For decades, life in these pits ...

Twelve people were killed in a coal mine accident in China, state media reported Monday, the latest incident in the country’s notoriously dangerous industry. Coal gas flooded a colliery in Baishan, in ...

Emergency responders were hoping to use an underwater drone Sunday to reach a miner trapped deep inside a flooded West Virginia coal mine, authorities said. A mining crew hit an unknown pocket of ...

BEIJING, May 25 (Reuters) - Chinese coking coal prices soared on Monday to their highest in nearly two weeks, as a wave of stringent safety checks ‌at coal mines following a deadly mine accident in a ...

A gas explosion at a coal mine in China’s northern province of Shanxi, the country's main coal mining province, killed at least 82 people, local officials said Saturday. The cause of the explosion, ...

SHANGHAI, May 23 (Reuters) - A gas explosion ⁠at ⁠Liushenyu coal mine ⁠in China's northern Shanxi province late on Friday killed at least 90 people, making it China's worst coal ‌mine disaster in over ...