THE vast mineral resources of New South Wales may be judged by reference to this handy volume. The mines—which range from the mines of the Broken Hill Proprietary Company, with 6,512,000l.

The Big Pit museum is a 140-year-old former coal mine in Blaenavon, in south Wales and part of Museum Wales, a government-backed body which is bound to follow a Labour directive to set “the ...

This meant that the war saw some form of prosperity return to the south Wales coalfield after the long, hard inter-war years. One in ten eighteen-year-olds were drafted into mines rather than the ...

Ioan Lord is rediscovering Wales' lost mines. Their existence and whereabouts have been forgotten about for hundreds of years. He believes there are more than 1,000 mines in mid Wales alone - and ...

The UN-backed study used aircraft-based measurements to extrapolate what the Hail Creek coal mine may have actually emitted ...

Delyth Jewell the Plaid Cymru MS for South Wales East has made a request for the application to be called in by Welsh ...

Work to make more than 130 coal tip sites throughout Wales safe has received a boost. Nearly £34m is being invested to deliver safety work. The funding was confirmed by deputy first minister Huw ...

Methane emissions from a large open-cast coal mine in Australia are three to eight times higher than reported. This has been ...

SYDNEY, March 26 (Xinhua) -- A coal mine in Australia's state of Queensland, previously identified as a major methane emitter, could be releasing greenhouse gases at rates up to eight times higher ...