Springhill residents are marking the 50th anniversary of one of the country's worst mining disasters with a plaque and candlelight service.

Net income for South Milwaukee mining equipment manufacturer Bucyrus International Inc. more than doubled in the third quarter because of continued high demand and the acquisition of DBT GmbH, a German underground mining equipment maker. (BUCY)

Sefwi-Chirano (W/R), Oct. 23, GNA - Chirano Gold Mine, a Canadian mining firm in the Western Region, is to invest over 80 million dollars this year in Ghana to undertake underground mining and expansion of its processing plant capacity.

George H. Read, P. Geo., Senior Vice President Exploration and Development, is pleased to announce the fourth set of diamond results from underground bulk sampling of the Orion South Kimberlite, within the Fort a La Corne Joint Venture where Shore is the operator with a 60 percent interest and Newmont Mining Corporation of Canada Limited has 40 percent.

An Alpha Natural Resources subsidiary has been fined more than $763,000 for repeated safety violations at a West Virginia coal operation, the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration said Wednesday. Alpha's Kingwood Mining Co. was cited 13 times in a one-year period for allowing coal dust to accumulate along conveyer belts at its Whitetail Kittanning Mine, MSHA said. Five of the ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - A coal miner killed at a Consol Energy operation in West Virginia was pinned between an underground locomotive and a rail car, a spokeswoman for the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration said Monday.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Last year, federal inspectors repeatedly found unsafe levels of explosive coal dust inside Kingwood Mining Co.s Whitetail Kittanning Mine near Fellowsville in Preston County. U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration inspectors cited ...

Federal regulators have fined a Preston County coal mine $736,000 for "flagrant" violations of rules meant to prevent underground explosions and fires, officials said Wednesday.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - A coal miner killed at a Consol Energy operation in West Virginia was pinned between an underground locomotive and a rail car, a spokeswoman for the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration said Monday.

The widow of the Donaldson man killed in an October 2006 Tremont Township mining accident started a lawsuit Tuesday in Schuylkill County Court against numerous miners, companies and government officials in an attempt to hold them responsible for his death.