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(AP) - At least 44 miners were killed and 21 remained trapped underground after a gas blast ripped through a coal mine in northern China. The official Xinhua News Agency said the pre-dawn blast occurred while 436 workers were in the Tunlan Coal Mine in Gujiao city near Taiyuan, the capital of... More »

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Starving Russian Bears Menace Miners

Pack of 30 bears surround platinum mine, eat guards

Jul 26, 08 11:32 AM CDT
(Newser) - A pack of starving bears has surrounded a platinum mine in Russia's remote Kamchatka peninsula, the Los Angeles Times reports. Two guards have been eaten, and terrified miners are refusing to work. The government has sent a team of snipers to kill the ravenous bears, thought to be starving because... More »

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24 Trapped Ukraine Miners Rescued; 12 Still Missing

One dead in weekend explosion as rescue efforts continue

Jun 10, 08 5:52 AM CDT
(Newser) - Rescuers have saved 24 Ukrainian miners trapped underground after a large explosion over the weekend. One miner was found dead, AFP reports. Efforts continued to rescue the remaining 12 workers as flood waters rose. Most of the survivors were found some 3,000 feet underground, their faces covered with soot... More »

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37 Miners Trapped
After Ukraine
Explosion

Biggest-ever Ukraine coal mine blast

Jun 8, 08 8:31 AM CDT
(Newser) - A massive explosion in a Ukrainian coal mine trapped at least 37 miners and injured four others above ground, the AP reports. Several buildings were flattened. The mine had been ruled too dangerous to use, and the miners had been working to improve conditions. It was the biggest blast in... More »

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65 Feared Dead in Tanzania Mine

Six recovered, 59 missing as flash floods combine with downed power lines

Mar 30, 08 11:15 AM CDT
(Newser) - Rescuers now fear that 65 miners trapped in a northern Tanzanian mine shaft have drowned, reports Reuters, with six bodies recovered and 59 workers missing. Volunteers raced to the remote gemstone mine near Mount Kilimanjaro yesterday when flash floods swept through the area, but the torrential weather also brought down... More »

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Africa • Tanzania • drowning • miners • missing person • tanzanite • mining accidents

Stocks Dip on Bad Oil News

Oct 8, 07 3:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - Stocks fell today as oil producers and miners faced fears a slow economy would hamper demand. Crude dropped as low as $78.98 as Columbus Day brought the slowest trading session of the year; the Dow closed at 14,043.73, down 22.28. Exxon and Occidental both saw declines,... More »

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Exxon • Dow Jones • Alcoa • Nasdaq • miners • crude oil • quarterly reports • Occidental • Columbus Day • S&P 500

Rescuers Start Hauling Up Trapped Miners

All 3,200 expected to come up safely after accident in South Africa

Oct 3, 07 11:21 PM CDT
(Newser) - Rescuers have begun evacuating 3,200 gold miners trapped more than a mile underground in a South African gold mine. By early today, 450 had been pulled to safety, Reuters said. No injuries have been reported. Union leaders accused the mine owner of negligence and said the accident was caused... More »

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Utah Mine Search Suspended

'We've done all we can do,' expert says after camera fails

Sep 1, 07 3:48 AM CDT
(Newser) - "We've exhausted the options that we know about." That's how mine experts put it to an attorney for the trapped Utah miners' families yesterday, CNN reports.  A camera lowered through a borehole into the collapsed mine at the Candall Canyon site yesterday failed to produce useful information... More »

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Mine Operation Continues With 7th Hole and Camera

Camera could reach shaft bottom by this afternoon

Aug 27, 07 5:17 AM CDT
(Newser) - Reversing an earlier decision, recovery efforts will continue at the Utah mine where six miners were trapped three weeks ago. A seventh hole will be drilled into the mine, and a camera will be dropped into a previously bored hole to search for signs of life. Family members requested that... More »

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6th Hole Shows No Signs of Life

Aug 25, 07 9:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - The last hole drilled into the collapsed Utah mine where six men are trapped yielded no hopeful sign today; the space it reached was too small to support the men, a lawyer for some of the families told the press. "The only thing they told us is there is... More »

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Rescue Workers Will Bore One
Last Hole

Company decides
to close mine permanently

Aug 23, 07 3:55 AM CDT
(Newser) - Workers will bore a final hole in a bid to locate six miners lost in a Utah mine, but if that fails, the operation will be halted and the mine closed as a kind of memorial tomb, the owner said yesterday. "We're not going to risk more live people... More »

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Families, Critics Question Safety of Utah Mine

Mourner assails company owner at rescue worker's funeral

Aug 21, 07 9:03 PM CDT
(Newser) - A friend of a missing miner insulted the mining company CEO at a funeral yesterday as critics around the country pointed fingers. They say a safety organization has gone too easy on Bob Murray, letting him engage in dangerous “retreat mining” even though his mines are prone to “... More »

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Mine Owner: They're Probably Dead

Miners' bodies may never be recovered

Aug 21, 07 7:05 AM CDT
(Newser) - The trapped Utah miners are most likely dead, and their bodies may never be recovered, mine owner Robert Murray acknowledged to bereaved family members last night. Following the death of three rescuers—and a report from mining experts concluding that further attempts would be an unacceptable risk—underground rescue efforts... More »

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Families Lash Owners for Abandoning Trapped Miners

Little hope left for six men

Aug 19, 07 11:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - Angry relatives of six men missing for two weeks in a Utah mine collapse have accused owners and federal officials of quitting on the rescue effort and leaving the miners for dead. Officials conceded yesterday that the miners may never be found in the mountain, still quivering from seismic activity,... More »

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Floods Trap 180 Chinese Miners

Officials have little hope of rescuing trapped men

Aug 18, 07 9:34 AM CDT
(Newser) - Flash flooding complicated efforts in eastern China today to rescue 180 miners trapped underground, and officials warned the men had little chance of survival. Pummeled by hours of downpour, an overwhelmed river breached its levee and gushed rushing waters into the Shandong coal mine, where 756 people had been working.... More »

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Mine Rescue Effort Called Off

Aug 17, 07 8:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - The search for the six men trapped in a collapsed Utah mine for the last 12 days has been halted indefinitely after a seismic "bump" at 6:39 PM yesterday caused a second cave-in, killing three rescuers, injuring six, and highlighting that the Crandall Canyon mine remains fraught with... More »

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Utah • collapse • mine • miners • Crandall Canyon • Bob Murray • Jon Huntsman

9 Injured in 2nd Mine Collapse

Aug 16, 07 9:37 PM CDT
(Newser) - At least nine rescuers at the Utah mine where six miners were trapped last week are injured after seismic activity may have caused another cave-in, CNN reports. Six or more ambulances and two helicopters rushed to the Crandall Canyon mine tonight to transport the wounded rescuers to the hospital. More »

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Utah • collapse • mine • miners • Crandall Canyon • Bob Murray • mine collapse • Castleview Hospital

New Images Offer Hope at Mine

After sounds, emergency camera detects space of fresh air

Aug 16, 07 5:56 AM CDT
(Newser) - Hours after rescuers in Utah detected noise from the collapsed mine, images from a videocamera lowered into the disaster site offered a glimmer of hope, the AP reports. Although the camera did not pick up the miners, it did film a ventilation curtain used to ensure workers have access to... More »

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Utah • air • collapse • mine • miners • rescue • Bob Murray

Rescuers Hear 'Noise' in Mine

Crews start drilling toward unknown sound

Aug 15, 07 10:46 PM CDT
(Newser) - Rescuers digging for men who have been trapped underground for 10 days heard noise inside the mine today, prompting crews to drill a fourth hole in the sound's direction. They described hearing 5 minutes of “noise” through seismic geophones, ignighting some hope in an otherwise-discouraging rescue effort. "There's... More »

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Utah • mine • miners • rescue • Crandall Canyon • Bob Murray • digging • mine collapse • noise

Mine Collapse Survivor Didn't Hear the Cave-In

Found out via text message

Aug 13, 07 10:53 AM CDT
(Newser) - One of the four miners who escaped the Crandall Canyon collapse that trapped six men told the AP he didn't hear or feel the cave-in as it was occurring. Tim Curtis, who was near the mine's entrance at the time, heard of the collapse via text message on an personal... More »

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