Federal mine safety officials have released their final report on a fatal accident at the Ohio County Mine in Dallas, West ...

Underground mining accidents are rarely random. They tend to occur in predictable conditions: at intersections, around blind corners and in confined drifts where vehicles and people move through ...

May 24 (Asia Today) --A gas explosion at a coal mine in China's Shanxi Province has killed at least 82 people in what Chinese-language media described as the country's deadliest mining accident in 17 ...

The Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) is distributing more than $10.5 million to 45 states, the Navajo Nation and the Northern Mariana Islands to support programs aimed at reducing mining ...

Freeport-McMoRan Inc.’s declaration of force majeure at its Grasberg mine in Indonesia — where two employees are dead and five missing after a massive mud flow — couldn’t have come at a worse time for ...

Shares of copper miner Freeport McMoran rose early Tuesday after catching an upgrade. BofA is “sufficiently confident” that risks following September’s fatal mining accident are priced in.