The bodies of two more miners that were trapped in a coalmine in west Siberia, have been found, bringing the death toll to three, a deputy regional governor said on Sunday.

The death toll in the coal mine blast in China's north Shanxi Province mounted to 105 on Friday, as rescuers pulled out 26 more bodies from under the shaft.

Ukraine goes into mourning for 88 coal miners who were killed by a methane blast underground, the most horrible mining catastrophe in the country since Soviet times.

Local prosecutors opened on Monday a criminal investigation into a mine blast in east Ukraine's Donetsk Region, as the death toll rose to 72, with 28 miners still missing.

The death toll from a gas leak in a coal mine in southwest China has risen to 32, the Xinhua news agency said on Friday. The accident occurred on Thursday afternoon, when 86 miners were working in the mine.

A total of 34 miners were reported missing on Thursday after a gas leak in a coal mine in the province of Guizhou in southwestern China, Xinhua news agency said.

Rescuers have failed to find six US miners since a tunnel collapsed two weeks ago after a sixth rescue bid, a lawyer for the miners' families says.

The fate of 181 miners trapped in two flooded coal mines in east China's Shandong Province since Friday remains unknown even as rescuers say their chances of survival was slim.

Ground Operations Suspended After Rescue Workers Killed in Utah Mine Collapse.

Mining officials in the western U.S. state of Utah say rescue workers have drilled to the underground chamber where six coal miners are believed to be trapped after a cave-in.

Drill rigs perched on a steep mountain chewed through sandstone in the U.S. state of Utah to within a few hundred feet early Thursday of six coal miners caught in a collapse 1,500 feet (457 meters) underground, one of the mine's co-owners said.

Rescuers poured milk down a coal mine's ventilation pipes in a bid to save 69 workers trapped underground for more than 50 hours in central China, state media said on Tuesday.