Latest Mining Headlines
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Kentucky Mining Company Sued Over Flooding Death, Damage
Oct 14 2011 // A lawsuit filed by residents in southeastern Kentucky blames a mining company’s surface mining practices for stoking a flood that killed a man and damaged homes in Knox County this summer. The suit against Nally...
Mining Industry Launches Safety Program
Sep 19 2011 // The National Mining Association says it’s launching a program to get companies collaborating so mine operators with poor safety records can learn from those with good ones. The goal is to eliminate deaths and cut...
Pennsylvania Mining Firm Fined $900K Over Deadly Explosion
Aug 15 2011 // An administrative judge has ordered a small Pennsylvania mining company to pay $900,000 in fines related to the 2006 explosion that killed a miner and resulted in criminal charges against three others, a newspaper reported...
14 Mining Deaths Reported Thus Far in 2011
Jul 28 2011 // Federal mine safety regulators said that eight miners have been killed in coal mining operations, and six in the metal and nonmetal sector this year through the end of June. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety...
Marsh Launches Global Mining Practice
Jul 6 2011 // Marsh has announced the formation of a new “Global Mining Practice,” which it said “harnesses all of its mining expertise, experience, and relationships around the world.” The move comes as...
Marsh Forms New Global Mining Practice
Jul 6 2011 // As mining organizations pursue growth opportunities outside their home countries, they are challenged by a number of new and emerging exposures. Marsh has formed a new Global Mining Practice that will combine its global...
Federal Report: Coal Dust, Deception in Fatal West Virginia Mine Blast
Jun 30 2011 // The blast that killed 29 men in a West Virginia coal mine last year was probably caused by coal dust ignition, compounded by safety failings, intimidation and deception by the mine’s owner, the U.S. mine regulator...
Mine Owner Massey Kept 2 Sets of Safety Records: NPR
Jun 29 2011 // The owners of the West Virginia coal mine where 29 men died in a blast last year kept two sets of safety records, one that it concealed from federal safety officials, National Public Radio reported Wednesday, The...
3 Men Rescued from Collapsed Kentucky Mine
Jun 22 2011 // Three men who spent more than half a day trapped underground in a flooded southeastern Kentucky coal mine waded out and were on their way home after just a quick hospital evaluation. Relief was on the faces of Pernell...
Mining Rule on Coal Dust Becomes Permanent
Jun 22 2011 // Federal regulators are making permanent an emergency rule implemented last year requiring underground mines to do more to control explosive coal dust. The Mine Safety and Health Administration announced the final rule this...
Coal Industry Blasts New Federal Mine Safety Rules
Jun 9 2011 // Coal industry officials this week roundly criticized two sets of new safety rules proposed by federal regulators following an explosion that killed 29 West Virginia miners last year. The West Virginia Coal Association and...
Massey Criticizes Federal Report on West Virginia Mine Disaster
Jun 6 2011 // The company that owned the coal mine where 29 miners died in the worst U.S. mining disaster in four decades concluded the explosion was the result of unpreventable natural gas buildup and not coal dust, contradicting the...
Feds Demand Workplace Injury Records from Mining Firms
May 26 2011 // An administrative law judge has ordered two major coal producers, Massey Energy Co. and Peabody Energy Corp., to turn over information about coal mine accidents, injuries and work-related illnesses, federal regulators...
Black Lung Disease Rising Again Among U.S. Miners
May 23 2011 // Black lung disease, long a killer of coal miners, is on the rise again after retreating in the 30 years since Congress passed tougher mine safety laws, health and safety experts said Friday. The renewed appearance of the...
Mine Owner Massey Blamed for Deadly West Virginia Blast
May 19 2011 // The worst U.S. coal mine accident in four decades, in which 29 miners died, was “man-made” and could have been avoided if the mine owner, Massey Energy Co , had followed basic safety measures, an independent...
Boys Drive Excavator at Pennsylvania Mine, Smash Bulldozer
Apr 27 2011 // Pennsylvania State police say two boys, ages 12 and 9, drove a large excavator at a southwestern Pennsylvania strip mine, smashing a bulldozer in the process. Police say the 12-year-old will be charged with felony criminal...
Feds, Shareholders at Odds Over West Virginia Mine Blast Documents
Mar 22 2011 // Federal prosecutors want to block Massey Energy Co. shareholders from reviewing documents gathered during civil and criminal investigations into last April’s deadly explosion at the Upper Big Branch Mine in West...
Wrongful Death Suits Filed Against Massey Over West Virginia Mine Blast
Mar 8 2011 // The families of two coal miners killed in the Upper Big Branch mine blast in West Virginia last year filed wrongful death lawsuits against the mine’s owner, Massey Energy Co, saying it was a “catastrophe...
Security Officer at Massey West Virginia Mine Charged in Probe
Mar 1 2011 // The head of security at Massey Energy’s Upper Big Branch mine was arrested Monday on charges he impeded investigators and lied to them as they probed an explosion at the West Virginia mine that killed 29...
Mine Operators Oppose New Safety Rules
Feb 21 2011 // Planned new U.S. mine safety rules will raise costs for mining companies that already spent close to $1 billion between them upgrading safety measures four years ago, the mine industry said. “It’s challenging...
