On July 10, 1902, the Rolling Mill Mine in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, exploded due to a rise in firedamp, which is a rise in methane to dangerous levels. 112 miners died that day in what was one of so many coal mine disasters in these...
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On February 16, 1931, the Harlan County Coal Operators' Association reduced wages for miners in that part of eastern Kentucky by 10 percent. In response, the United Mine Workers of.
Too often, we hear something like "Either the climate is a crisis or it's not a crisis and if it's a crisis, then we have to plow ahead with a.
Rare earths are central to the development of cleaner technologies that don't destroy the livable climate. But there are still massive externalities to these mining operations. Who should pay the price for this? Though I still have a lot more to learn, it is clear...
On December 28, 1921, the Rand Rebellion in South Africa began with a strike of white miners. Soon, it would develop into a general rebellion of workers against the state,.
Hydraulic mining, Marin County, California, 1908
On November 23, 1891, a miner in Alaska named Patrick Whalen was injured in a mining accident. After a lower court awarded him financial compensation, the Supreme Court stepped in to make sure that injured workers would get nothing. This moment both demonstrates the indifference...
On August 16, 1928, Josephine Roche signed a collective bargaining agreement with the United Mine Workers of America, the first time the UMWA had won a contract in Colorado. This.
An aerial view shows the brine pools of SQM lithium mine on the Atacama salt flat in the Atacama desert of northern Chile, January 10, 2013. Picture taken January 10,.
On April 12, 1959, unions led by the International Hod Carriers', Building, and Common Laborers' Union of America and with assistance from the United Steelworkers of America and the Operating Engineers, filed for an election with the National Labor Relations Board at a mine in...
On April 29, 1899, miners in the Coeur d'Alene district of northern Idaho blew up a mine, part of the long struggle in those mines by miners for dignity against.
Good move here on the part of the Biden administration and let's hope there's a way to move this toward permanence so that the next Republican administration can't just undo.