" The billionaire is bringing lumps of rock from the bottom of the San Jose mine as gifts for both the Prime Minister and the Queen, who he will meet at Buckingham Palace after a last-minute invitation, according to The Times. President Pinera will visit Churchill's War Rooms...
The capsule the Chilean Navy constructed traveled up and down through the earth a distance of 33 miles in total to save 33 trapped Chilean miners. The courage, faith and patriotism of the nation, the rescuers and the miners have now traveled across the globe to touch every...
opinion by lakeall | 1 year ago 182 views | 2 recommendations | 1 comment
Mario Sepulveda Was the Second Chile Miner Rescued and Gave the Waiting Crowd a Show When He Reached the Surface Known as 'the presenter', Mario Sepulveda would give tours of the underground mine shaft where the...
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Lack of livelihood opportunities is forcing hundreds of poor Indians take up illegal mining in Jharkhand. Here is an IndiaUnheard video by Mukesh Rajak that captures the ugly dark truth Illegal coal...
created by stellasglobe | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 605 views | 14 recommendations | 3 comments
It is dirty and mining it is dangerous. Burning it is a hazard to the environment. We continue to use it as a fuel because it is cheap. It is cheap because 1) we pillage the landscape as if there are no...
The Recovery Effort At Upper Big Branch Mine Ended As All Bodies Removed The bodies of all 29 miners killed in the West Virginia mine explosion, including the four missing miners who were found dead on Friday, have now been recovered from the mine. The recovery process...
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14 miners are missing and presumed dead after an underground coal mine exploded in northern Slovakia. The miners had been putting out a fire in the Handlova mine when it exploded, said the mine owner. The explosion occured in an unused section of the mine, and is thought to...
created by Annina Bergman | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 122 views | 0 recommendations | 2 comments
The death toll has risen to 74 from the explosion.The men who were trapped inside contaced many of their loved ones by mobile phone. Out of the 426 miners working in the mine, at least 74 miners are dead, 96...
created by Amy Judd | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 371 views | 24 recommendations | 5 comments
Earthquake hit southwest of china on wednesday,quake was recorded early in the morning. " Two people were confirmed dead andthree others were injured in a 5.0-magnitude earthquake that shook southwest China's...
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14 illegal miners were trapped and killed inside a gold mine in Guinea earlier today.The mine is located near the village of Boireyah, about 800 km east of Conakry in Guinea - a country in West Africa.""The victims, all men, were killed inside the mines. They were buried...
created by Amy Judd | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 161 views | 12 recommendations | 3 comments
The Wujiu Coal Mine has collapsed in northern China, just days after the last disaster."State media says that seven miners managed to escape from the Wujiu mine and a further four were rescued. An early investigation into the accident, which happened on Saturday, suggested...
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" TWENTY-FOUR miners have been found alive more than 24 hours after they were trapped deep underground by a huge Ukrainian coalmine explosion.One miner was found dead 750m underground.The survivors have been...
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UPDATE 21:34 GMT June 9th Most of the miners caught in the gas explosion at a Ukrainian mine has been rescued alive."A total of 24 miners have now been brought to the surface and are being...
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So far, only unmanned gondolas have been sent down to find any survivors of a gas explosion that collapsed a mine in Yenakiyevo, Ukraine. Previously, the mine had beem lited as unsafe."Thirty-seven miners were missing after a gas explosion tore through a pit in Ukraine's...
"At least 12 illegal gold miners were killed in a landslide in Indonesia's easternmost province of Papua while nine other people were missing and feared dead, police and local media reports said Tuesday.The accident took place late Monday when more than 20 locals were working...