A coal miner carries a sack of coal back home after his shift at a small mine in China's Shanxi Province on November 29, 2006.
The death toll from an explosion at an illegal coal mine in central China rose to 42 Wednesday with another 37 men still trapped with little hope for survival.
Montana coal mine deal beset by financing problems More signs of problems have emerged with an Australian company's bid to take over a Montana coal mine. Court documents reveal Ambre Energy has been unable to come up with more than $70 million needed to ...
July 5, 2013 - Associated Press via Yahoo! News
Chinese consortium selected to revive Uganda copper mine By Elias Biryabarema KAMPALA (Reuters) - A Chinese consortium has won a concession to revive production at Uganda's Kilembe copper mines in the west of the country near the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a government official said on Friday. The mine was abandoned in the early 1980s due to political turmoil in Congo and a fall in copper prices, but in recent years the ...
July 5, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News
Barack Obama in ABC News (blog) I have never spoken to the governor on this subject,Obama said then in remarks from Chicago, "I'm confident that no representatives of mine would have any part of any deals related to this seat."