At least 24 workers killed in Liaoning coal mine disaster
At least 24 miners were killed and another 52 injured in a fire at a state-owned coal mine in the north-eastern province of Liaoning in the early hours of Wednesday morning, the Xinhua News Agency...
View ArticleEleven more deaths blight China’s deadliest coal mining district
At least 11 workers were killed in the early morning of 27 November when a gas explosion ripped through a coal mine in southwest China’s Pan county. There were 19 miners underground at the time and all...
View ArticleDow Jones: China’s coal addiction brings scourge of black lung
China is grappling with a surge in the deadly disease, a consequence of decades of coal-fired development. Cases of black lung in the U.S. peaked in the 1960s. But the world’s second-largest economy...
View ArticleRFA: Shandong Mine Workers Strike Over Months of Back Pay, Bonuses
Hundreds of workers at a state-run coal mine in the eastern Chinese province of Shandong are on strike following clashes at the weekend amid protests over unpaid wages and benefits, workers said on...
View ArticleChina’s miners take a stand as coal production falls for first time in 14 years
While environmentalists are hailing the drop in China’s coal production last year, it is the country’s miners who are feeling the immediate impact, with mines closing down and wages withheld for months...
View ArticleHuffington Post: China Nears Peak Coal, But Its Rustbelt Pays the Price
China’s great coal boom is grinding to a halt, and the consequences for both the global climate and hundreds of millions of Chinese factory workers could be dramatic.
View ArticleChina’s annual coal mine death toll falls below 1,000 but no one seems to...
At the end of January, China’s State Administration for Work Safety announced that the total number of coal mine accidents and deaths last year had fallen by 16.3 percent and 14.3 percent respectively....
View ArticleAP: China's economic evolution sets stage for growth but forces painful change
This city in China's northern coal country hardly looks like it is in trouble. After three decades fueling China's industrial boom, its wide, tree-lined avenues are filled with late model cars. Markets...
View ArticleRFA: China Cuts Coal Mine Deaths, But Count in Doubt
China has announced continuing progress in reducing coal mine fatalities, although doubts remain about death counts and cover-ups in one of the most dangerous industries in the world.
View ArticleDeath toll rises to 19 in Shanxi coal mine flood; two workers still...
At least 19 miners were killed in China’s coal heartland of Shanxi when flood water inundated a coal mine near the city of Datong on 19 April. Three miners were found alive during the three day rescue...
View ArticleChina’s miners step up protests as industry downturn continues
Workers in China’s coal, iron ore, gold and silver mining industries have all taken to the streets in protest this year as the economic slowdown continues to impact on mining companies across the country.
View ArticleWorker unrest in Shandong on the rise as economy slows
Worker unrest in the eastern coastal province of Shandong is on the rise with the number of strikes and protests recorded on CLB’s strike map in July standing at 18, second only to the industrial...
View ArticleMass lay-offs in Heilongjiang add to China’s coal industry woes
The Longmay Mining Group, the largest coal mining company in northeast China, will lay off 100,000 employees, about 40 percent of its current workforce, over the next three months. Photo: Longmay...
View ArticleAt least 21 miners killed in Heilongjiang coal mine fire
A coal mine fire in the north-eastern province of Heilongjiang has killed 21 miners, with one of 38 miners working underground at the time still missing, according to the official Chinese media.
View ArticleNortheast China sees two coal mine disasters in two days
At least 13 workers were killed and ten injured in a coal mine fire in the north-eastern province of Liaoning yesterday, while in Heilongjiang on 16 December, a gas explosion has almost certainly...
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