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Rio Tinto Coal Australia's Blair Athol Mine, near Clermont in Central Queensland, will finish mining operations this year after almost 30 years of production.

Senate majority leader Harry Reid said it was time to close one of the coal power plants in his home state of Nevada, calling it a "dirty relic."

Xstrata has approved a $360 million expansion for its McArthur River mine in Australia’s Northern Territory which will make the project the largest producer of zinc in the world.

The miners work at a depth of 300 meters in two shifts of 6 hours per day and are hired on a contract basis for 400,000 tomans (about $200) per month

A Chinese supervisor died on Saturday after being hit by a trolley pushed at him at the Collum mine in Zambia during a dispute over minimum wages.

Gina Rinehart, iron ore magnate and Asia's wealthiest woman, sold a controlling stake in her Galilee coal assets nearly a year ago to GVK Group, run by Indian billionaire GV Krishna Reddy.

Six coal miner died after 100 tonnes of coal collapsed at a mine in northern Mexico, located in the State of Coahuila.

Former president Nambaryn Enkhbayar was found guilty on corruption charges and sentenced to four years in prison just weeks after he made a political comeback with his Mongolian People’s Revolutionary Party as the junior partner in the new ruling coalition.

India's tiger population has dwindled from tens of thousands a century ago to a mere 1,411 according to the last official census.