The phrase "a canary in a coal mine " refers to the demise of the weakest member as a...  ...s carbon monoxide detectors.Canaries were used in mines from the late 1800s to detect gases, such as carb...  ...tice. That's not quite so -at least not so in all mines . The cage pictur...

In the Victorian age, coal mining in Britain paid so little that not only di...  ...ing in Britain paid so little that not only did a miner work long hours underground, so did his wife and...  ...the family fed. An inspection of a Staffordshire mine in 1841 revealed women and ch...

In 1885, the mining community of Rock Springs, Wyo...  ...ded in anger over Chinese laborers working in the mines . None of the coal miners were getting rich, but the immigrants were paid l...  ...were paid less and diluted the power of the white miner 's union demands.The figh...

Sunday is the 100th anniversary of the Ludlow Mass...  ...e 100th anniversary of the Ludlow Massacre in the coal mining region of Colorado. In the fall of 1913, 1...  ...g region of Colorado. In the fall of 1913, 11,000 miners went on strike, protesting dangerous work conditi...  ...ence, the Guard was used to e...

Photo: Snorky [wikipedia]In the coal stripmine Hambach in Germany, there was a machine...  ...u need a machine so absurdly big? So we can strip mine coal out of the ground, transport it hundreds of miles...