Rescuers recovered the body of a second miner on Wednesday after water and mud poured into underground tunnels at the Velenje coal mine in northeastern Slovenia, STA news agency reported. They were ...

It is one of the worst industrial accidents in the state's history ... In Buffalo Creek, one of the Pittston Coal Company's coal slurry impoundment dams bursts, unleashing 175 million gallons ...

Parents had complained that their children were having to walk across a "sea of slurry" which had come down from a spoil tip above the coal-mining village ... killed in the disaster - 116 of ...

Torrential rain brought by Storm Bert led to a coal ... mining community over the weekend. Residents were forced to flee their homes in Cwmtillery, Blaenau Gwent, after a river of slurry and ...