FOUR Chinese men have lived to tell a remarkable tale after surviving for 13 days in a collapsed mine - by eating coal and leaves. Trapped deep underground by a landslide, the miners showed ...

CHICAGO, June 23.--The situation at Coal City, Ill., among the striking coal miners seems to be fully as bad as that at Braidwood. Twice a week--Tuesday and Saturday--the distribution of ...

Coal workers make up a declining share of American miners, about 55,000 people nationwide, compared with nearly 200,000 workers mining metal, nonmetal, stone, sand and gravel.

Retired coal miner Emory “Curly” Carter, 70, sits at his kitchen table on April 15 in Madison, West Virginia. Carter retired from mining in 2012 and began receiving federal benefits for black ...