…  will consolidate coal mines and boost output of good quality coal while controlling overall …  planning agency says in a five-year blueprint for the industry. Total production will be capped at 2.6 billion tons annually by 2010, …  and poor safety,” the commission said. China’s coal mining industry is highly fragmented, with tens of thousands of small mine …

…  coal mining industry has high hopes for a new material that may harden underground …  MSHA upped the strength requirement after methane gas explosions behind seals killed 17 miners in separate accidents in West Virginia …

Coal companies must replace by-the-book compliance with a culture of prevention if they want to …  said Larry Grayson, commission chairman and a professor of mining engineering at the University of Missouri-Rolla. “Unfortunately, it’s …

…  as rescuers battled to reach 15 miners trapped in a deep coal mine after an explosion that killed at least eight others. More than 70 …  men were caught in a massive explosion, probably caused by methane gas, at about 4:30 p.m. (10:30 a.m.) on Tuesday. Officials …

…  and the US have decided to enhance their clean energy cooperation by establishing a clearing house to act as a central point of information on coal bed and coal mine methane projects in India. The US Environmental …  is released from the coal seams during the process of coal mining. Methane in coal seams presents a critical danger for mine safety as it …

…  47 miners trapped after an explosion in a northern Chinese coal mine were confirmed dead after rescuers found the last body Thursday, a …  in the latest string of accidents to hit China’s dangerous coal mining industry, which recently has increased production to feed a …

…  12 months in an effort to more effectively regulate the industry, an official with the Ministry of Land and Resources said Tuesday. “A …  of policies and measures have come out to tighten up mining rights and management, promote the development of mining rights…and strengthen management of coal exploration and mining,” said Wang Min, vice minister of land and …

…  W.Va. - One miner was killed and a second was seriously injured Monday in what has become the deadliest year in the nation’s coal mines in a decade. And the industry, reeling from the 43 deaths so far …

…  were rushing to save seven miners trapped after a coal mine flood in northeastern China, state media reported Thursday. There …  Yuqing, deputy director of the Jilin Provincial Coal Mining Bureau was quoted as saying rescuers were hopeful of recovering the …

…  for natural gas by making concerted efforts to develop coal-bed methane, said an executive with the China United Coalbed Methane Corp. …  China’s major coal-bed methane enterprise, at the 7th Sino-US Petroleum & Natural Gas Forum held in Hangzhou, capital of east China’s …