
Buffalo Creek Flood – 1972
Donโt always trust a US Federal Mine Inspector – that was the painful lesson learned
Donโt always trust a US Federal Mine Inspector – that was the painful lesson learned
Coal was the life-blood of industry in South Wales, with whole communities dependent on the
Just one year after Nova Scotiaโs Springhill community went into mourning for miners lost in
Canadaโs Springhill coalfield in Nova Scotia opened in the 19th century, and was the scene
Generating electricity by means of nuclear energy was a young industry in 1957. The Windscale
Nuclear fission was a sensitive subject in the Soviet Union during the Cold War years
Sometimes painful history lessons arenโt learned. Sometimes they are simply ignored. Either way, the disastrous
America prides itself on defending national shores and protecting its people against hostile incursion in
At first, nobody noticed a cloud of vapor pouring from an Ohio Gas Company storage
Being a coal miner in China has never been the easiest or safest of careers,
It seems bizarre that one of the USAโs worst-ever industrial disasters happened without a single
Ignorance can be bliss – until disaster strikes. Before World War I the BASF (Badische
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West Virginia and mining go together like coal and dust, which means the impoverished state
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Humanity has gone a long way since the dark times, yet some chapters of our
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