Learn how coal played a vital role in shaping the Utah we know today. The coal mining industry has been the backbone of rural parts of Utah for over a century. From extraction to refining, Utahns ...

A list of some recent fatal mine disasters around the world: — 2013: 83 workers are buried by a massive landslide at a gold mining site in a mountainous area of Tibet, east of Lhasa, according ...

(Utah Division of Oil, Gas and Mining) Smoke from a fire in the abandoned Kenilworth coal mine is seen on Nov. 5, 2024.

And I'm Steve Inskeep. The owner of a Utah coal mine has become the public face of a disaster. Amid the effort to rescue six trapped men, he's been attacking mine safety advocates and the media.

In 2008, Arch said it would bypass $100 million worth of coal at depths of more than 3,000 feet to avoid the kind of cave-in dangers that led to the large-scale collapse of another Utah mine a ...

November 13, 1909 – 259 miners are killed in a fire at the Cherry mine in Cherry, Illinois. October 22, 1913 – An explosion kills 263 at the Stag Canon No. 2 coal mine in Dawson, New Mexico.

As he keeps watch outside the Utah coal mine where six of his employees have been trapped since Monday, Robert E. Murray angrily fends off suggestions that it was his company's mining technique ...

The Utah Inland Port Authority has added a coal mine to its development plan in Carbon and Emery counties. The Fossil Rock Mine, formerly called the Trail Mountain Mine, closed in 2001.

HUNTINGTON, Utah -- Nearly five months after a thunderous cave-in at Utah's Crandall Canyon mine, the cause of the original disaster is still under investigation and the fate of the mine is ...