KABUL: Rescuers on Sunday freed 22 miners who had been trapped for hours in a collapsed coal mine in northern Afghanistan, a provincial official said, with no serious injuries reported.

The Russian military’s offensive near Pokrovsk in Ukraine’s Donetsk region has forced the suspension of coal operations at a critical mine run by Metinvest, Ukraine’s largest private company. The mine ...

The site, that includes Pokrovske Colliery’s vertical mine shaft No. 3 and an administrative complex, produced around half of Metinvest’s total Ukrainian coal extraction volumes, the company ...

while existing mines will be given until April 2027, the ministry said. China’s 3,000 coal mines are responsible for around 40% of the country’s methane emissions, with a similar amount ...

The coal mine at Habrang in SamdrupJongkhar is set to prematurely shut down by the end of this month. This is due to declining coal reserve. The Public Accounts Committee informed this at the Joint ...

A large expansion of a massive thermal coal mine near Hinton, Alta., has been given the go-ahead by the federal government, without a federal impact assessment. The Impact Assessment Agency of ...

Seven years ago, El Salvador made global headlines as the first country in the world to ban all metal mining. The decision was hailed as a victory for environmental protection, celebrated by local ...

Two planned mineral sands mines in western Victoria have received approvals for environmental plans. Farmers near Swan Hill and Horsham say the Victorian government has ignored their concerns.

But the decision by policymakers and regulators in the US and other OECD nations to make the approval of new mines near-impossible starting in the 1970s put an end to that, enabling China to move ...

The mothballed Escarpment mine borders the Stockton mine, both run by Bathurst. Image: Neil Silverwood New Treasury figures show last year the Government spent more than $3 million treating damage ...

Most of its coal mines and refineries have closed. Half its young people have left. Its pension coffers are heavily in the red, with roughly a third of its population 60 or above.