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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

Twenty-one people are killed by a coal mine explosion in Sutatausa, Cundinamarca, Colombia.
2023-03-15

At least five people are killed and 48 others are reported missing following a collapse at a coal mine in Alxa League, Inner Mongolia, China. Search and rescue operations are underway.
2023-02-22

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

Eight people are killed and 20 more are injured during a coal mine collapse in Aleksinac, Serbia.
2022-04-1

China's Foreign Ministry announces French journalist Ursula Gauthier of news magazine L'Obs would not be issued press credentials for 2016, effectively expelling her at the end of month. Gauthier allegedly made speculative reports on the deadly attack at a coal mine in Xinjiang.
2015-12-26

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

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