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U.S. / NEWS Mon Aug 27, 2007 @ 8:25am neoform

USA Today -- Rescuers admit it's a long shot, but a robotic camera dropped deep inside a Utah mountain could be the best chance officials have of finding any sign of six men missing for 21 days in a caved-in coal mine. The 8-inch robot was lowered more than 1,500 f.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Aug 22, 2007 @ 8:16am neoform

USA Today -- Coal mine boss Bob Murray said Wednesday he is hurt by critics who say he ran an unsafe mine and wasn't doing enough to find six missing miners trapped deep underground. He said he emotionally "came apart" after a second cave-in killed three rescuers... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Aug 20, 2007 @ 8:17am neoform

CNN -- Families of the trapped six miners accused those in charge of rescue effort of having "given up" on the missing men. In a statement read by a spokesman, the families urged the Utah mine's owner and federal officials to drill a hole into the mine large eno.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Aug 18, 2007 @ 1:12pm neoform

MSNBC -- Stickler said any further rescue efforts would have to involve drilling a bore hole large enough to fit a rescue capsule, which would take more than two weeks. 'It's a brotherhood' Despite the long odds, mining experts predicted that colleagues of t.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Aug 17, 2007 @ 8:18am neoform

USA Today -- A cave-in killed three miners and injured six other men who were tunneling through a coal mine Thursday evening trying to reach six miners trapped for 11 days, mining officials said. "There was a major mountain bump," said Tammy Kikuchi, spokeswoman fo.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Aug 15, 2007 @ 3:54pm neoform

USA Today -- Rescuers are running out of options to rescue six coal miners trapped by a cave-in nearly 10 days ago, and experts are giving long odds against finding the men alive. As crews slowly dig a path to the men's presumed location at the Crandall Canyon mine.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Aug 12, 2007 @ 12:28pm neoform

CNN -- Rescue workers trying to reach six men trapped in Utah's Crandall Canyon mine found survivable space Saturday after punching a second, wider hole into a cavity where the workers are believed to be trapped and lowering a camera, a federal official said. Bu.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Aug 10, 2007 @ 8:17am neoform

BBC News -- Rescuers in the US state of Utah have drilled through to a mine cavity where six miners are believed trapped, but have not yet detected any sound. The rescue crew drilled a narrow hole and lowered a microphone into the collapsed Crandall Canyon coal mi.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Aug 6, 2007 @ 4:25pm neoform

USA Today -- Six miners were trapped in a coal mine Monday by a cave-in so powerful that authorities initially thought it was small earthquake. Eight hours after the underground cave-in was reported, rescuers had not had any contact with the miners and were still t.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed May 9, 2007 @ 2:13pm neoform

BBC News -- A lightning bolt travelled down a cable and ignited the methane blast that led to the deaths of 12 miners in West Virginia last year, a US report says. The report, obtained by the Associated Press, also says methane in a sealed section was not monitore.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Mar 18, 2007 @ 3:29pm neoform

USA Today -- Al Gore has profited from zinc mining that has released millions of pounds of potentially toxic substances near his farmstead, but there is no evidence the mine has caused serious damage to the environment in the area or threatened the health of his neigh.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Sep 4, 2007 @ 3:49pm neoform

USA Today -- A cave-in killed a miner in West Virginia's coal country, marking the second mine fatality in the area in a month. The state is investigating the death Monday at the mine in Mingo County, about 80 miles southwest of Charleston, said Terry Farley of the.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Sep 4, 2007 @ 8:16am neoform

USA Today -- The desert hillsides are known as a risky playground, where a derelict mine shaft swallowed two sisters out riding an all-terrain vehicle, killing one over the Labor Day weekend. "I don't go anywhere off a trail here," said Bill Keller, who has lived i.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Aug 27, 2007 @ 8:28am neoform

MSNBC -- We believe the right thing to do is to put another hole down and try to locate these men and in discussions with MSHA that was agreed to and that is what has been done,” said Rob Moore, vice president of Murray Energy Corp. The seventh hole was being.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Aug 23, 2007 @ 8:14am neoform

CNN -- Rescuers trying to find six miners will begin boring a sixth hole down into Utah's Crandall Canyon mine Friday, and the search will stop if no signs of life are found, the coal mine's co-owner said. "This is the last hole," Bob Murray, CEO of Murray Energ.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Aug 22, 2007 @ 8:17am neoform

MSNBC -- In that middle section, the mine was cut like a city block, leaving pillars of coal holding up the mountain above. MSHA approved a plan allowing the operators to pull out the pillars, a practice called “retreat mining,” which causes deliberate, contro.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Aug 20, 2007 @ 8:21am neoform

USA Today -- The operator of the Crandall Canyon coal mine where six men are missing and three rescuers died last week delivered a grim assessment Sunday, saying "It's likely that these miners may not be found." Rob Moore, vice president of Utah Energy which operat.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Aug 17, 2007 @ 8:19am neoform

BBC News -- Three rescuers have died and six have been injured during efforts to reach a group of coal miners trapped underground in the US state of Utah. It is thought that the rescue workers were caught in a cave-in as they tried to dig a tunnel to the spot wher.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Aug 16, 2007 @ 8:19am neoform

CNN -- Rescue workers said they detected a noise Wednesday night -- though it's unclear what it was -- deep inside the Utah mine where six men have been trapped for nine days. "We saw some indication of noise for a period of about five minutes that we had not se.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Aug 11, 2007 @ 11:17am neoform

USA Today -- A second drill broke through early Saturday to a mine shaft where officials hope to find six trapped workers, clearing the way for a video camera to be lowered and provide the first answers to the miners' fate. Nearly 9 inches wide, the hole reached th.. Read More