To be clear, Maria Fitzpatrick is not opposed to coal. She is opposed to open pit coal mining – a type of mining which is catastrophic for the environment. There were indeed coal mines in ...

We are declaring a new policy direction – the Alberta Coal Industry Modernization Initiative – which will ban new open-pit mining in the foothills (Eastern Slopes) and keep selenium out of our water ...

ABOUT THIN COAL SEAMS I worked as a mining surveyor in the late 1950s and the the thinnest seam I experienced was 2'3" thick. [69cm] You can imagine our difficulty in traversing the workings on a ...

The mine was exempted from Alberta’s recent decision to ban mountaintop removal and open-pit coal developments, as the province deemed it an advanced proposal. Chris Spearman, the former mayor ...

Two days after at least nine workers got trapped in an illegal coal mine in Assam’s Dima Hasao district ... The biggest challenge facing the rescue teams is the level of flooding in the approximately ...

EDMONTON — Alberta's government has quietly rescinded its moratorium on new coal exploration and development in the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains. It's a move critics say means the ...

The death toll in a coal mine collapse due to a methane gas accumulation and explosion has left 11 workers dead after rescuers recovered seven more dead bodies, an official said. Twelve workers ...

This ore will be sourced from a combination of the Otjikoto open pit, the Wolfshag underground mine, and existing stockpiles. While open-pit mining is slated to conclude in the third quarter of 2025, ...

Rescue workers retrieved bodies bodies of miners from a flooded rat-hole coal mine in Assam’s Dima Hasao ... to rescue them from the 90-metre pit continued for the fifth day.

The mine, near the frontline city of Pokrovsk, produced coking coal crucial for Ukraine’s steel industry. It kept running until the very last moment, when Russian forces finally reached its gates.