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Tuvalu's climate minister denounces the Australian Labor government's decision to expand three coal mines as an existential threat to the nation, due to the role of the mines in causing rising sea levels that have forced mass displacement across Tuvalu's low-lying islands.
2024-09-30

At least 51 miners are killed, several are trapped and twenty-one are injured after a coal mine explodes in Tabas, Iran, caused by a methane gas leak.
2024-09-21

Four miners are killed and another is injured after a water pipeline ruptured inside a coal mine in Jaworzno, Poland.
2023-11-28

The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities approves the first new coal mine in the United Kingdom in 30 years at the Woodhouse Colliery in Cumbria, England. The mine is expected to remain operational for up to 50 years. It will create 500 direct and 1,500 indirect jobs in the region, and will take two years to build at a cost estimated at around £165 million ($201 million).
2022-12-7

Five people are killed and four others are injured in a methane explosion at a coal mine in Karaganda, Kazakhstan.
2022-11-3

At least 119 people are killed in a fire at a poultry farm in Jilin Province in northeastern China.
2013-06-3

A mining accident in China's Jilin Province kills at least 18 people and injures 12 others.
2013-04-21

At least six people are killed in a explosion at a coal mine near Baishan, China.
2013-04-1

Twenty-nine coal miners and officials are feared trapped following an explosion at the Pike River Coal Processing Plant at Atarau in the Grey District of the South Island of New Zealand.
2010-11-19

At least 21 people are killed and five are wounded in an outburst at a colliery in Puding County, Anshun, Guizhou.
2010-05-13