Five pumps were used to drain water from the Huayuan Coal Mine and Minggong Coal Mine, the state media reported on Monday.
The water level in Huayuan Coal Mine, about 150 km south of Jinan, the provincial capital of Shandong, continued to drop after the levee that breached and caused the flooding was repaired early Sunday.
By Monday morning the water level in the mine, where four pumps were operating, had fallen by 8.9 meters in 12 hours.
However rescuers say it will take at least half a month to drain all the flooded water from Huayuan Coal Mine, claiming the chances for survival of the miners were slim.
The flooding occurred on Friday, first at the Huayuan Coal Mine in Xintai City. Later it took place at the Minggong Coal Mine, 10 km from the Huayuan Mine.
When the flooding struck, 756 miners were working underground at Huayuan Coal Mine and 584 managed to escape.
Ninety-five miners were working inside Minggong Coal Mine by the time the flooding occurred and 86 escaped.
Rains recording 232 mm had swept Xintai on Friday and early in the day, triggering a flash flood and a 50-meter breach in a levee on the Wenhe River.
Floodwater from the river poured through an obsolete shaft into Huayuan Mine on Friday afternoon.
Four temporary working groups have been set up to deal with the aftermath of the flooding at both mines, including one for compensation and another for the reception of relatives of the trapped miners. - DDNEWS
