As many as 32 miners were killed when a coal mine fire in the Donbass region of the Ukraine released toxic gas, Soviet media said Sunday. The evening news program Vremya said the fire was one of the ...

Deep inside an abandoned mine in the Krusne hory (Ore Mountains) of northwest Czech Republic, Jakub Kristek's radiation meter crackles with urgency as he picks up a fist-sized rock. "Uranium ore," he ...

Soviet miners have threatened to flood their coal pits as the desperate next step in their month-old strike. The strike has crippled parts of the country's heavy industry and cost the economy millions ...

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DONETSK, Ukraine -- Vladimir Ilyushenkov and 15 other men were working a half-mile beneath this decaying mining town one day last month, blasting away rock in a thick seam of the Gaegova coal mine, ...

NORILSK, Russia (Reuters) - Underpaid and isolated from an increasingly affluent Russia, workers are steadily leaving the nickel operations of Norilsk, and some of those who remain look back fondly on ...