"… d today by an independent panel investigating the mine disaster. Of the 24 miners whose lungs could be examined, 17 had the disease — a rate more than 20 …"

"… a rate more than 20 times higher than the average for all underground coal miners.It wasn’t just the long-time miners working for Massey Energy Co. who h …"

"… the average for all underground coal miners.It wasn’t just the long-time miners working for Massey Energy Co. who had the disease. Some were as young as …"

"… ocused on failures by state and federal regulators and Massey to safeguard miners at Upper Big Branch.Headlines are sure to focus on the explosion and its …"

"… nk the miner Act had the potential to dramatically improve protections for miners underground, notably in that it laid responsibility [for safety] on the m …"

"… ly attempted to control some of the more specialized costs they face. Coal miners, simply by virtue of their occupation, are exposed to steady amounts of a …"

"… “Congress finds and declares that there are a significant number of coal miners living today who are totally disabled due to pneumoconiosis arising out o …"

"… of the Nation’s coal mines; that there are a number of survivors of coal miners whose deaths were due to this disease; and that few States provide benefi …"

"… tates provide benefits for death or disability due to this disease to coal miners or their surviving dependents,” the Black Lung Benefits Act, which enha …"

"… n. And before long, MSHA had much more to worry about; in August 2007, six miners at the Crandall Canyon Mine near Huntington, Utah, were trapped in a coll …"

"… merous improvements to better protect the safety and health of America’s miners.”  …"

"… th representatives. …"

"… gnificantly increases the risk of lung cancer.For the most heavily exposed miners, the risk of dying from lung cancer was three times higher than it was fo …"

"… is scheduled to revisit the science in June and could be swayed by the HHS miner study to list diesel as a known cancer-causing agent. That, in turn, could …"

"… frond baskets his ancestors once weaved to bring prey home from a hunt.The miner has little time to talk; the drop-off point for his ore is still miles awa …"

"… patrols looking for traffickers moving contraband ore containing valuable minerals like coltan and tungsten.“We are seeing the emergence of illegal grou …"

"… of illegal groups engaged in mining activities, especially in rare-earth [minerals] in the eastern part of Colombia, very distant and remote areas in whic …"

"… ��s proof, he said, that a black market for valuable metals and rare-earth minerals is growing in territory the Colombian government has historically found …"

"… ue he uses to mine what he calls “black pebbles” — stones laced with minerals important to high-tech manufacturers worldwide.Over the last couple of …"

"… ied to solar panels, coltan increases energy efficiency.And as a strategic mineral, Coltan carries weight because it allows guidance controls in smart bomb …"

"… nt Hugo Chávez has selected Iranian, Chinese and Russian firms to explore minerals and is looking to develop future supplies of different ores.Today it is …"

"… kes of Ramón, Venezuelan coltan is already coming on to the international minerals market — as black-market contraband.In government documents in severa …"

"… compensate him for the disease that steals his breath — the old bane of miners known as black lung. In mid-century, when Marcum worked, dust filled the …"

"… Marcum worked, dust filled the mines, largely uncontrolled. Almost half of miners who worked at least 25 years contracted the disease. Amid strikes through …"

"… before we learned more about it,” Rasmussen, now 84 and still diagnosing miners, said in a recent interview at his office in Beckley, W.Va. “I was dead …"

"… nbsp;resurgence represents a failure to deliver on a 40-year-old pledge to miners in which few are blameless, an investigation by the Center for Public Int …"