A list of some recent fatal mine disasters around the world: — 2013: 83 workers are buried by a massive landslide at a gold mining site in a mountainous area of Tibet, east of Lhasa, according to ...

When 29-year-old Norbert Amoya went to fetch water from a river in northern Zambia earlier this year, he found large numbers ...

Since the explosion on Tuesday, mine safety expert Davitt McAteer has been looking into what went wrong at the Soma mine and how the disaster could have been prevented. McAteer is the former head of ...

Four years after the Fundão dam collapse—the world's largest mining disaster, which occurred in 2015 in the city of Mariana ...

—1942: China’s northeast is the site of the world’s deadliest coal mine disaster when an accident kills 1,549 miners in Japanese-occupied Manchuria during World War II. —1906: A dust explosion in a ...

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PITTSTON, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — It’s been 65 years since the Knox Mine disaster. On January 22, 1959, the ice-filled Susquehanna River broke the roof of the river slope mine at Port Griffith, ...

BARRACKVILLE — When Barrackville community leaders began putting together a memorial for victims of the town's mine disasters in March, Diana Marple thought it would take five years of $1,000 ...

Monsignor John Bendik, left, blesses the Knox Mine Disaster momument outside the Baloga Funeral Home in Port Griffith during a 2015 ceremony. King’s College is set to host a screening of the Knox Mine ...

The seminal event of Anthracite Heritage Month, otherwise known as January – the Knox Disaster Commemoration – is next Sunday morning, Jan. 21, at the Knox Disaster Monument in front of Baloga Funeral ...

(CNN) — Here’s a look at mine disasters, accidents and deaths in the United States. This is a list of notable mine disasters and is not all-inclusive. December 6, 1907 – Worst coal mine disaster in US ...