Mining in Japan is minimal because Japan does not possess many on-shore mineral resources. Many of the on-shore minerals have already been mined to the...

large-scale deep-mining became possible in Industrial times. Japan was to become a major exporter of copper and silver during the period. Japan was also perceived...

The history of coal mining goes back thousands of years, with early mines documented in ancient China, the Roman Empire and other early historical economies...

underground coal mining, although accidents also occur in hard rock mining. Coal mining is considered much more hazardous than hard rock mining due to flat-lying...

The Ashio Riot of 1907: A Social History of Mining in Japan (足尾暴動の史的分析 : 鉱山労働者の社会, Ashio Bōdō no Shiteki Bunseki: Kōzanrōdō no Shakai) is a 1988 non-fiction...

Monetary costs of the cleanup have been paid for in part by Japan's national government, Mitsui Mining, and the Gifu and Toyama prefectural governments...

Data mining is the process of extracting and discovering patterns in large data sets involving methods at the intersection of machine learning, statistics...

discovered in northern Japan. One of the first mines in Hokkaido was the Hokutan Horonai coal mine. Coal mining produced almost 4 million tonnes of coal in 2014...

Seisakusho) or Komatsu (コマツ) (TYO: 6301) is a Japanese multinational corporation that manufactures construction, mining, forestry and military equipment, as well...

Japan Energy Corporation (株式会社ジャパンエナジー, Kabushiki-gaisha Japan Enajī) was a Japanese petroleum company, a wholly owned subsidiary of Nippon Mining Holdings...