Orano warns of financial problems at Niger uranium plant
The West African nation increasingly seeks new partners, such as Russia, in its mining sector.
The Big Picture: News Stories in Photographs, a photojournalism blog, has a segment on coal photos. The series of 48 photographs by Lane Turner are vibrant, compelling, and at times disturbing. The subject matters includes miners carrying loads of coal on their backs down rickety, wooden-planked stairways, children working or walking through coal piles, rescuers and grief- stricken relatives captured at the scenes of coal mining accidents, and photos of coal mining machinery or power plants, sometimes rendered in strange and eerie compositions.
