An engraving showing child labour in a Welsh coal mine. The child on the left is a 'trapper' - they were responsible for opening and closing ventilation trap doors. Coal mining was often a family ...

Crews recently began work on an abandoned mine fire in Carbon County which put out plumes of hazardous smoke into the air ...

The operators of a major Queensland coal mine have warned it ... and work progressed on sealing the last ventilation shafts. It's understood the mine employs about 1400 workers.

Forty-one people have died following an explosion in a coal mine in northern ... were partial collapses inside the mine, but no ongoing fires, and ventilation was working properly.