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Chilean Mine Rescue: When 33 Miners Were Buried Alive For 69 Days In Scorching Heat
5 years after the San Jose mine collapse in Chile, the world remembers the miraculous survival of 33 miners trapped underground for 69 days.
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Coffee Powder, Water Drops: How 2 Men Survived 9 Days After Mine Collapse
Two South Korean miners survived by eating coffee powder and drinking water that dripped inside the vertical shaft that they were trapped in for nine days after a zinc mine collapsed.
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Hopes Now Pinned On Huge Pump On Concrete Platform Near "Rat-Hole" Mine
Rescuers trying to reach a group of miners trapped in the remote and illegal "rat-hole" coal mine in Meghalaya are struggling to pump out water from the 370-foot-deep pit, further dimming their chances of survival more than three weeks into their ordeal.
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He Survived 69 Days Underground. His Moving Message To Trapped Thai Boys
Mario Sepulveda, one of the Chilean miners who was trapped underground for 69 days in 2010, had a moving message of encouragement Wednesday for the boys' football team trapped in a cave in Thailand: "Hang in there!"
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Bitcoin 'Miners' Face Fight for Survival as New Supply Halves
From around 5pm GMT on Saturday, instead of 25 bitcoins up for grabs globally every 10 minutes, there will be just 12.5.
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8 Survivors Found 5 Days After Chinese Mine Collapsed
Rescuers using infrared cameras to peer into darkness at a wrecked mine in eastern China today found eight surviving miners who were trapped for five days after a collapse so violent it registered as a seismic event.
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5 Tanzanian Miners Freed After 41 Days Trapped Underground: Ministry
Five Tanzanian gold miners have been rescued after spending 41 trapped deep underground eating cockroaches and frogs to survive, the mining ministry and survivors said today.
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Shells Leave Ukraine's Coal Miners Digging for Survival
They spend much of their day clearing their gardens of shrapnel, digging up potatoes or chopping wood to prepare for the fast-approaching winter.
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Honduras Losing Hope in Search for Trapped Miners
Honduran officials said Saturday they are losing hope that any of eight still-trapped workers survived the collapse of small gold mine.
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Turkish Miner Who Survived Says Company to Blame
Miner Erdal Bicak believes he knows why so many of his colleagues died in Turkey's worst mining disaster: company negligence.
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Jennifer Lopez signs film on Chilean miners
Singer-actress Jennifer Lopez is the latest addition to the cast of The 33, a film based on the story of survival of the miners trapped for more than two months after a mine collapse in northern Chile.
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China coal mine gas blast kills 29 workers
A gas explosion at a coal mine in central China has killed 29 workers, Chinese authorities said Sunday. Six other miners survived Saturday evening's blast at a state-owned coal mine in Hengyang city in Hunan province, China's State Administration of Work Safety said in a statement on its website.
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Chilean Mine Rescue: When 33 Miners Were Buried Alive For 69 Days In Scorching Heat
5 years after the San Jose mine collapse in Chile, the world remembers the miraculous survival of 33 miners trapped underground for 69 days.
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Coffee Powder, Water Drops: How 2 Men Survived 9 Days After Mine Collapse
Two South Korean miners survived by eating coffee powder and drinking water that dripped inside the vertical shaft that they were trapped in for nine days after a zinc mine collapsed.
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Hopes Now Pinned On Huge Pump On Concrete Platform Near "Rat-Hole" Mine
Rescuers trying to reach a group of miners trapped in the remote and illegal "rat-hole" coal mine in Meghalaya are struggling to pump out water from the 370-foot-deep pit, further dimming their chances of survival more than three weeks into their ordeal.
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He Survived 69 Days Underground. His Moving Message To Trapped Thai Boys
Mario Sepulveda, one of the Chilean miners who was trapped underground for 69 days in 2010, had a moving message of encouragement Wednesday for the boys' football team trapped in a cave in Thailand: "Hang in there!"
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Bitcoin 'Miners' Face Fight for Survival as New Supply Halves
From around 5pm GMT on Saturday, instead of 25 bitcoins up for grabs globally every 10 minutes, there will be just 12.5.
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8 Survivors Found 5 Days After Chinese Mine Collapsed
Rescuers using infrared cameras to peer into darkness at a wrecked mine in eastern China today found eight surviving miners who were trapped for five days after a collapse so violent it registered as a seismic event.
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5 Tanzanian Miners Freed After 41 Days Trapped Underground: Ministry
Five Tanzanian gold miners have been rescued after spending 41 trapped deep underground eating cockroaches and frogs to survive, the mining ministry and survivors said today.
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Shells Leave Ukraine's Coal Miners Digging for Survival
They spend much of their day clearing their gardens of shrapnel, digging up potatoes or chopping wood to prepare for the fast-approaching winter.
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Honduras Losing Hope in Search for Trapped Miners
Honduran officials said Saturday they are losing hope that any of eight still-trapped workers survived the collapse of small gold mine.
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Turkish Miner Who Survived Says Company to Blame
Miner Erdal Bicak believes he knows why so many of his colleagues died in Turkey's worst mining disaster: company negligence.
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Jennifer Lopez signs film on Chilean miners
Singer-actress Jennifer Lopez is the latest addition to the cast of The 33, a film based on the story of survival of the miners trapped for more than two months after a mine collapse in northern Chile.
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China coal mine gas blast kills 29 workers
A gas explosion at a coal mine in central China has killed 29 workers, Chinese authorities said Sunday. Six other miners survived Saturday evening's blast at a state-owned coal mine in Hengyang city in Hunan province, China's State Administration of Work Safety said in a statement on its website.
