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Rescue crews waited impatiently outside one of New Zealand's largest coal mines Friday night for the all-clear to begin a search for 27 men missing after a powerful gas explosion struck deep underground.

There is little hope of finding alive 11 missing coal miners trapped after a gas leak in central China that already killed 26 people, state media said Monday of the country's latest mining disaster.

An underground explosion in a coal mine in central China's Henan Province trapped at least 58 miners early Monday, Chinese state media reported.

Two miners were missing Thursday and rescuers were unable to contact them after a roof collapsed in a large underground coal mine in western Kentucky, company and union officials said.

President Barack Obama ordered an exhaustive federal review of coal mine safety Thursday and asked Congress to strengthen existing laws "riddled with loopholes."...

The grueling rescue efforts at Upper Big Branch mine remained a stop-and-start operation Thursday, as authorities weighed the ...

Crews begain working their way through a West Virginia coal mine in search of missing miners.

Floodwaters kept rescuers from reaching 32 miners still trapped in a Chinese coal pit Tuesday. The recovery of six bodies dimmed ...

An explosion at an underground West Virginia coal mine on Monday killed at least six people and left 21 unaccounted for, WSAZ TV reported, citing a state mining officials.

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Rescuers heard tapping sounds Friday from the pipes in a flooded Chinese coal mine where 153 workers were trapped more than five days earlier, and another rescue team reportedly heard shouts, an official said....