One story from the recent past that helps understand the dramatic impacts technology can have on our experience of work.

A final investigative report into the death of a worker who died in a fall at the West Elk Mine last August has pointed to ...

Conveyor belts are not new to industrial transport. What is believed to be the world's longest conveyor, at 61 miles, moves phosphorus from a mine in Western Sahara, according to NASA Earth ...

There, overland conveyor belts take the coal to be sorted. All of the other underground work the miners do is to prepare for the longwalls to be mined. “As we’re mining, it’s kind of like building a ...

The expansion will use existing mine infrastructure like conveyor belts, raw and clean coal storage areas, coal preparation facilities, roads, refuse storage areas and rail loadout, the IAAC said ...