Happy Saint Patrick’s Day weekend! I always felt a kinship with the Irish because my paternal great grandparents, whom I had never met, were born in County Cork, Ireland. They moved to ...

An old coal mine will be transformed into a ... The Lake Macquarie mine began underground and open-cut mining activities in the late 1800s before operations finished in 1971.

25,000 Welsh workers left mining for the armed forces and other jobs between 1938 and 1941. The coal industry moved from having tens of thousands of unwanted men to a serious labour shortage.

Rate of black lung disease among miners may be 10 times higher than reported Lung disease is a well-known deadly consequence of working in the coal industry. But a new NPR study finds miners are ...