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MSNBC
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The death toll in a massive gas explosion at a coal mine in northern China rose to 105 Friday, making it the nation's second deadliest mining disaster this year, state media reported.
Rescuers from among 15 crews sent to the mine in Shanxi province's H..
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africa.reuters.com
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Some 3,200 miners were trapped deep underground in a South African gold mine on Wednesday and a union spokesman said they could be suffocating.
The miners at the Elandsrand mine were caught about 2.2 km down after a power cable to a lift broke at aroun..
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CNN
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Two Chinese brothers who tunneled their way out of a coal mine collapse after being trapped for nearly six days survived by eating coal and drinking urine, a local newspaper reported on Tuesday.
Brothers Meng Xianchen and Meng Xianyou were trapped whil..
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MSNBC
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It could take months to drain the water from two flooded coal mines where 181 miners have been trapped for four days in eastern China, a rescue official said Tuesday.
Families of the miners questioned why safety warnings were ignored before a dike burs..
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CNN
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A quick outburst of violence by relatives of 172 miners trapped in a flooded coal mine brought a tearful promise of Chinese government action Monday, even as state media said the miners' chances for survival were dwindling. Several mines in the hilly east..
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USA Today
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Angry relatives protested and demanded answers Sunday as rescue efforts sputtered ahead for 181 miners trapped underground for more than two days after a collapsed dike flooded two coal mines in eastern China.
Rescuers finally managed to repair the bre..
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FOX News
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An explosion in a coal mine in Russia's Arctic killed seven people and left three missing, the Emergency Situations Ministry said Tuesday.
The blast hit the Komsomolskaya mine in Vorkuta, about 1,200 miles northeast of Moscow, on Monday evening. There..
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CNN
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At least 74 miners are dead, a number that could rise, and at least 43 are missing after a methane gas explosion Monday at a coal mine in southwestern Siberia, the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations said.
The ministry said 83 miners have been res..
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BBC News
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South African mine workers are holding a one-day strike in protest at poor safety in the country's mines.
Some 240,000 people were expected to take part in the first countrywide stoppage by miners over safety issues.
In Johannesburg, protesters are..
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CNN
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Rescuers struggled with flames and fallen rock in trying to reach 23 miners trapped in a coal mine Monday, a day after a methane blast killed at least 77 others in one of Ukraine's deadliest mining disasters of the post-Soviet era. Nearly 360 miners at th..
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CNN
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Fifty-four miners who spent nearly eight hours trapped underground by a fire in an Australian gold mine Wednesday were rescued, the mining company said.
Workers at the Barrick Gold Corp.'s Kanowa Belle mine near the southwestern mining town of Kalgoorl..
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BBC News
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Rescuers are slowly bringing to the surface thousands of workers trapped for hours in a South African gold mine.
More than 3,000 men became trapped 2.2km (1.4 miles) underground when a broken pipe severed power cables to a lift early on Wednesday.
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CNN
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More than 2,000 workers have been freed after an accident at a South African gold mine left them stuck 2 kilometers (1.3 miles) underground but about 1,200 people remain trapped, officials say. "I'm happy now because we are out and we are alive," said Gra..
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BBC News
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Chinese emergency teams are searching for 172 miners trapped in a flooded coal mine, state media has reported.
Officials told Xinhua news agency the workers have only a slim chance of survival in the mine, in Xintai city 450km (280 miles) south of Beij..
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USA Today
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A NATO vehicle rolled over a mine in eastern Afghanistan Thursday, triggering a blast that killed one soldier, the 90th foreign military fatality in a year of surging violence. The United Nations, meanwhile, said it had suspended shipments of food aid to..
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CNN
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Thousands of workers headed back to Freeport-McMoRan's Grasberg mine in Indonesia on Sunday in a fleet of buses after ending a four-day walkout that sent copper prices to seven-month highs.
The miners were due to resume work after Tongoi Papua, a group..
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NPR
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The solemn ritual of burying the dead began Wednesday in a Siberian coal-mining town, where at least 107 people died in an explosion and fire Monday. It was Russia's worst mining disaster in living memory.
Officials say the explosion that ripped throug..
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BBC News
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Attempts to rescue four Russian coal miners trapped underground are continuing, after an explosion killed 106 people at a Siberian pit on Monday.
Some 93 people were rescued from the mine, which was devastated by a methane explosion.
It was one of t..
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BBC News
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A gas blast has ripped through a coal mine in Siberia where 168 people were said to be working, Russian emergency ministry officials say.
They said 21 miners - at least three of them injured - had been rescued after methane exploded at the Ulyanovskaya..
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