Miners News
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Benoni -
Authorities have warned illegal miners who refuse to come up out of the abandoned Gold One Kleinfontein Mine in Benoni, that the access hole will be sealed on March 3.
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Oakland -
On Friday, August 24, Occupy Oakland CA was out in the streets, rallying in support of the striking Marikana miners, gunned down recently by South African police.
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While 600 million people in India suffer without electricity, hundreds of miners are trapped underground. Officials are attempting a rescue operation.
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Madrid -
It started with coal miners demonstrating in Madrid, then supporters joined them. Then Rajoy introduced more austerity measures. Then the cops stepped in with rubber bullets.
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Madrid -
A group of Spanish coal miners, angered by the huge austerity cuts in government subsidies to the mining industry, walked for 3 weeks to meet in Madrid.
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Around 200 miners were protesting austerity cuts yesterday in the northern Spanish village of Ciñera near León. Police used rubber bullets, protesters retaliated with their own home-made weapons.
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Last year, a group of miners in Chile were trapped underground for 69 days before being rescued; they spent the first 17 alone feared dead, and fearing they would never see daylight again.
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It was announced that there was no chance of survival for the 29 miners who had been trapped in New Zealand’s Pike River coal mine after a second, massive explosion occurred on Wednesday.
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Greymouth -
Twenty-seven miners are missing following a severe gas explosion at a remote mine on New Zealand's South Island. The mayor of the nearest town, Greymouth, said the situation is "pretty serious but rescuers are on hand".
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Who would have thought that after 69 days underground, 33 Chilean miners would still be alive. It is one of the most incredible events the world has witnessed.
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The Chilean government has turned to the Web to share images of miners being rescued in Chile. Sharing images on Flickr, the Chilean government is showcasing miners' reactions as they reach the surface after being trapped underground for 69 days.
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It is estimated that 2,000 journalists are camped outside the San Jose mine as the time nears for the Chilean miners to be rescued, one by one, from the mine they have been trapped in since August.
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Rescuers are one step closer to reaching the 33 miners that are still trapped in a Chilean mine. Drills are cutting an escape shaft through the final section of rock this afternoon.
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Since early August 33 miners have been trapped at 2,300ft under the ground. Efforts are underway to get them out and early reports said it might take until Christmas before they could be freed. A psychologist explains the mental effects of being trapped.
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Copiap -
Today, six days since the cave-in of a tunnel in a copper and gold mine buried 33 mining workers near the city of Copiapó in the Atacama Desert, intense efforts to contact and rescue the workers have not succeeded.
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Washington -
It's with much sorrow that we report today the passing of Senator Robert C. Byrd. A son of West Virginia, Byrd devoted his life to the Mountain State. His enduring dedication to improving the lives of each person he represented will live on forever.
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Grammy Award Winner Alan Jackson hit the stage in Charleston West Virginia Saturday night in a benefit concert for the families of the 29 coal miners killed in April at the Montcoal Mine explosion.
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Twenty-nine miners died after a methane gas explosion on April 5 at a West Virginia coal mine. Pres. Obama, Vice Pres. Biden and Gov. Manchin spoke at the memorial service.
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What if you held a parade or a protest and no one was there to watch? Well that's exactly what happened at some locations in Charleston, WV when Westboro Baptist Church staged hate protests, hoping for a reaction from the miners grieving families.
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On April 5, 2010 at 3 p.m. an explosion ripped through the Upper Big Branch Mine in what one Massey Coal Mine Worker on his way into the mine described as a powerful "whooshing" sound as rock, debris, coal dust and smoke came rolling out of the mine.
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As long as we have coal mines in the state of West Virginia we will always have children without fathers, mothers without sons, sisters without brothers and the empty arms of the coal miners' waiting widow.
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Urumchi -
An avalanche that struck the northwest region of China has killed at least four people and roughly 500 are still trapped, however, the preliminary numbers are expected to rise.
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The Montreal Gazette has confirmed the body of Marc Guay, 31, has been recovered bringing to an end the search for three missing Quebec miners.
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They’ve been trapped 485 metres below the ground since Friday and rescue crews are fearing the worst for three Montreal miners.
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Washington - Rescuers at a Utah mine where six miners have been trapped by a cave-in for two weeks were to drill a seventh hole in an effort to find the missing men, the mine owner said Sunday.
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The heartbreaking decision had to be made in Utah to stop the rescue attempt of the six trapped miners. At this point there is not a safe plan for rescuers to go into the depths of the mine plagued by "mountain bumps".
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After laboring 1,800 feet through hard rock the 2 and 1/2 inch drill bit broke through to the chamber where the six miners are beleived trapped. Although the findings are discouraging the rescue team remains hopeful.
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Bodies have been recovered,
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PITTSBURGH (voa) - Nine miners trapped deep underground in a Pennsylvania coal mine since Wednesday are alive, and efforts are under way to pull them out.
Pennsylvania Governor Mark Schweiker, who is at the rescue site, says all nine are in "pretty...
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Photo by Hugo Infante/Government of Chile
Members of the press gather on an authorized part of a hill overlooking the rescue operation involved in liberating 33 trapped miners in San Jose mine near Copiapo, Chile.
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Photo by Hugo Infante/Government of Chile
Mario Sepulveda, 39, is the second miner to leave the San Jose mine with the Phoenix rescue capsule the night of October 13, 2010. An accident trapped 33 miners for over nine weeks in the mine located near Copiapo, Chile.
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Photo by Hugo Infante/Government of Chile
Family members of Claudio Yañez, 34, cheer on as he becomes the eighth miner to leave the San Jose mine with the "Fenix" rescue capsule the morning of October 13, 2010. An accident trapped 33 miners for over nine weeks in the mine located near Copiapo, Chile.
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Mine Safety and Health Administration
Southern West Virginia Miner's Memorial
Dedicated by UMWA District 17, August 15, 1998
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Protesting miners respond to police with home-made bazookas.
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Westboro Baptist Church members at a protest in Charleston WV, where they waved signs reading God Hates Dead Miners, after the 2010 mining disaster that rocked the coal state.
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Photo by Hugo Infante/Government of Chile
Juan Illanes, 51, shakes hands with Andres Sougarret, chief of rescue operations, and becomes the third miner to be freed from the San Jose mine where 33 miners have been trapped since August 5th, near Copiapo, Chile.
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Photo by Hugo Infante/Government of Chile
Claudio Yañez, 34, is the eighth miner to leave the San Jose mine with the "Fenix" rescue capsule the morning of October 13, 2010. An accident trapped 33 miners for over nine weeks in the mine located near Copiapo, Chile.
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People gather outside the Chilean Embassy in Washington DC to watch as the first miners emerge October 12, 2010.
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Photo by Hugo Infante/Government of Chile
Manuel Gonzalez, a rescue specialist from Codelco, will be the first rescuer lowered by the Phoenix 2 rescue capsule into the hole that will save the 33 trapped miners at San Jose mine near Copiapo, Chile on October 13, 2010.
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South Africa: Marikana miners shot by police
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Photo by Hugo Infante/Government of Chile
Mario Sepulveda, 39, is the second miner to leave the San Jose mine with the Phoenix rescue capsule the night of October 13, 2010. An accident trapped 33 miners for over nine weeks in the mine located near Copiapo, Chile.
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Miners killed by police at the wildcat strike at Lonmin's mine at Marikana
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Photo by Hugo Infante/Government of Chile
Mario Sepulveda, 39, is the second miner to leave the San Jose mine with the Phoenix rescue capsule the night of October 13, 2010. An accident trapped 33 miners for over nine weeks in the mine located near Copiapo, Chile.
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Photo by Hugo Infante/Government of Chile
Florencio Avalos, 31, becomes the first miner to exit the Phoenix rescue capsule after an accident trapped 33 miners for 68 days in the San Jose mine near Copiapo, Chile the night of October 12, 2010.
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Photo by Hugo Infante/Government of Chile
Florencio Avalos, 31, becomes the first miner to exit the Phoenix rescue capsule after an accident trapped 33 miners for 68 days in the San Jose mine near Copiapo, Chile the night of October 12, 2010.
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Photo by Hugo Infante/Government of Chile
Chilean President Sebastian Piñera (left) and Mining Minister Laurence Golborne shake hands after Roberto Rios, a tecnical expert arrives at the bottom of the hole where the 33 trapped miners wait for their exit at the San Jose mine near Copiapo, Chile on October 12, 2010.
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Jorge Galleguillos, 55, hugs Chilean president Sebastian Piñera and becomes the eleventh trapped miner to be rescued from the San Jose mine near Copiapo, Chile on October 13, 2010.
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Photo by Hugo Infante/Government of Chile
Mario Gomez, 59, is the oldest and the ninth of thirty-three miners being liberated from the collapsed San Jose mine near Copiapo, Chile on October 13, 2010. The miners have been trapped for 69 days since the collapse of the mine on August 5, 2010.
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Photo by Hugo Infante/Government of Chile
The sixth miner to emerge from the San Jose mine was Osman Araya, 29, after having been trapped for 69 days after the collapse of a tunnel on August 5. The rescue operations began bringing miners to the surface on October 13, 2010 near Copiapo, Chile.
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