Some of the worst mining disasters do not happen in mines. They take place at dams. After minerals are extracted from mines, there are waste materials — including sand, rock and chemicals. They're ...

Gov. Greg Gianforte signed a bill that revises the definition of sex in Montana.Senate Bill 437 establishes a strictly biological interpretation setting the ter Whitefish City Council holds 2nd ...

SOMA, Turkey — The Turkish government and mining company officials vehemently denied Friday that negligence was at the root of the country’s worst mining disaster even as opposition lawmakers raised ...

SAGO, W.Va (WDTV) - Friday marks 20 years since a mining disaster rocked a small Upshur County community. On January 2nd of 2006, the world’s attention was on the community of Sago. A mine explosion ...

At the base of a barren mountain, near a long-abandoned machine shop along a highway in rural Letcher County lies an unassuming pond shrouded in overgrowth and surrounded by metal pipes and rusted ...

On the morning of December 21, 1910, just four days before Christmas, the town of Westhoughton in Lancashire woke to the shock of a subterranean thunderclap. It was the sound of the Hulton Colliery ...

An explosion in a coal mine in eastern Iran killed at least 34 workers and injured 17 others, officials said Sunday, marking one of the worst mining disasters in the country's history as others ...

As the history books will tell you, the mining industry has taken thousands of lives over the years. When the Industrial Revolution took hold during the 19th century, the need for fossil fuels like ...

Michigan State Representative Karen Whitsett announced she will not seek re-election and will not run for public office again, saying the decision is faith-based and rooted in her commitment to Jesus ...

From Bhopal to the draining of the Aral Sea, discover some of the worst man-made disasters that have occurred around the ...

"An in-depth history of the worst industrial accident in US history. Monongah documents the events which led to the explosion that claimed hundreds of lives on the morning of December 6, 1907. Nearly ...

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