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WORLD / NEWS Thu Oct 4, 2007 @ 9:31am neoform

africa.reuters.com -- 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.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sun Aug 26, 2007 @ 11:39am neoform

MSNBC -- 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.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Tue Aug 21, 2007 @ 8:15am neoform

CNN -- 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.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sun Aug 19, 2007 @ 1:50pm neoform

USA Today -- 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.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sun Aug 19, 2007 @ 1:48pm neoform

CNN -- More than 180 trapped miners in China have slim hopes of survival as the shafts they were working in are almost completely filled with the raging waters from a broken levee. Officials said on Sunday operations in other coal mines in Shangdong province had.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Mon Mar 19, 2007 @ 3:48pm neoform

CNN -- 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.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Mon Nov 19, 2007 @ 8:15am neoform

CNN -- 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.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Wed Oct 24, 2007 @ 8:15am neoform

CNN -- 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.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Thu Oct 4, 2007 @ 8:25am neoform

BBC News -- 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. B.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Thu Oct 4, 2007 @ 8:21am neoform

MSNBC -- More than 1,700 trapped gold miners were rescued during a dramatic all-night operation and efforts gathered speed Thursday to bring hundreds more terrified and exhausted workers to the surface. The mine owner and South Africa’s minerals and energy mi.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Thu Oct 4, 2007 @ 8:21am neoform

USA Today -- More than 1,500 trapped gold miners were rescued during a dramatic all-night operation in this country's mining heartland, and hundreds more exhausted workers were expected to be brought back to the surface Thursday. About 3,200 miners were trapped Wed.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sat Aug 18, 2007 @ 1:12pm neoform

BBC News -- 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.. Read More