The coal miner argued in its opening statement to a landmark test case of the federal government laws on Wednesday that it was carved out from paying up to $49,000 a year extra to its labour hire ...

The standoff between police and miners began last November, when police surrounded the abandoned gold mine’s entrance, with the goal of forcing the miners to emerge and then arresting them.

The Alberta government has lifted a ban on coal exploration in the Eastern Slopes of the Rocky Mountains, a move that the regulator says will allow suspended projects to resume. The provincial ...

Mannas Fourie, CEO of Mines Rescue Services, points out the technology capabilities of the mobile rescue winder that was used to rescue miners, during an interview in Carletonville, South Africa ...

Chances that the two missing miners were still alive are slim, the Premogovnik Velenje Mine Director Marko Mavec told the Slovenian Press Agency on Tuesday. The accumulation of silt and water ...

2:12 Alberta lifts ban on coal mining in the eastern slopes Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says the province had taxpayers in mind when it decided to lift a ban on new coal exploration and ...

Alberta’s government has quietly rescinded its moratorium on new coal exploration and development in the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains. It’s a move critics say means the province has ...

Bitcoin miners are seeing a threefold profitability margin despite rising network difficulty, according to data from Glassnode. New results from the Bitcoin (BTC) Difficulty Regression Model ...

A total of eight illegal miners were killed and one seriously injured, last weekend, after a group of about 60 attempted to forcibly enter the Deep Decline area of the AngloGold Ashanti Obuasi Mine, ...

China, India, and Indonesia are mining more coal than ever, and nations are consuming more of it than ever—except for Europe and the United States, where coal consumption is down 12% and 5%, ...

The Ghana Armed Forces said about 60 illegal miners, armed with among others things "pump action guns", had forced their way into the mine run by global giant AngloGold Ashanti and fired at the ...