A veteran miner has been killed after being crushed by a piece of underground machinery.

LOGAN, W.V. - West Virginia's Democratic leaders Saturday embarked on a winding, eight-county bus tour through the south of the state, and in one small mining town after another, they sold Barack Obama to small crowds of Democrats with remarkable directness.

The Interior Department is poised to issue a final rule that will make it easier for mountaintop mining companies to dump their waste near rivers and streams, the agency announced yesterday.

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InSeT Systems, LLC, an Akron, OH company that has developed an inertial sensor tracking system for use in the underground mining industry, was awarded a $792,750 loan from the Innovation Ohio Loan Fund.

West Virginia's three gubernatorial candidates have several views in common, but are miles apart on others - including mountaintop removal, abortion, the death penalty and the leadership of the current administration.

A mining accident killed a Kentucky coal miner at the Pattiki Mine southeast of Carmi around 2:30 Thursday afternoon. White County Coroner Carl McVey identified the decedent as Tim Adamson, 45, of Morganfield, Ky. He is survived by his wife, and funeral arrangements are pending. He had worked for Pattiki for eight years.

U.S. officials have moved closer to finalizing rules on the disposal of mining waste, a plan environmentalists said gives mountaintop mining companies more freedom to dump debris near rivers and streams.

TORONTO, ONTARIO-- - Vena Resources Inc. is pleased to announce the expansion of the underground and surface development program at the Pucara gold, copper and silver property located 80 kilometres north of Juliaca in the Puno District of southeastern Peru.

Belvedere Resources Ltd. BEL:TSX-V is pleased to announce that the Eastern Finland Environmental Permit Authority has today granted an environmental permit for mining and ore concentration at Belvedere's Luikonlahti Mill complex in eastern Finland.