The bodies of two more miners that were trapped in a coalmine in west Siberia, have been found, bringing the death toll to three, a deputy regional governor said on Sunday.

The death toll in the coal mine blast in China's north Shanxi Province mounted to 105 on Friday, as rescuers pulled out 26 more bodies from under the shaft.

Ukraine goes into mourning for 88 coal miners who were killed by a methane blast underground, the most horrible mining catastrophe in the country since Soviet times.

A total of 34 miners were reported missing on Thursday after a gas leak in a coal mine in the province of Guizhou in southwestern China, Xinhua news agency said.

Rescuers have failed to find six US miners since a tunnel collapsed two weeks ago after a sixth rescue bid, a lawyer for the miners' families says.

The chances of survival of 181 miners trapped in two separate flooded coal mines in east China is slim, though the search operation is on while rescuers say it will take at least half a month to drain all the flooded water.

The University of Utah Seismograph Stations recorded a magnitude-1.6 seismic event at the time of a Thursday, Aug. 16 “bump” that killed and injured rescuers at a Utah coal mine where six miners were trapped by an Aug. 6 collapse.

The fate of 181 miners trapped in two flooded coal mines in east China's Shandong Province since Friday remains unknown even as rescuers say their chances of survival was slim.

Mining officials in the western U.S. state of Utah say rescue workers have drilled to the underground chamber where six coal miners are believed to be trapped after a cave-in.

Drill rigs perched on a steep mountain chewed through sandstone in the U.S. state of Utah to within a few hundred feet early Thursday of six coal miners caught in a collapse 1,500 feet (457 meters) underground, one of the mine's co-owners said.

Rescuers poured milk down a coal mine's ventilation pipes in a bid to save 69 workers trapped underground for more than 50 hours in central China, state media said on Tuesday.

A methane gas explosion in a Siberian coal mine of Russia on Monday killed at least nine miners, a Russian emergency official said, the Associated Press reported March 19. At least two other miners were injured by the blast at the Ulyanovskaya mine in Siberia's Kemerovo region, Valery Korchagin, spokesman for the regional branch of the Emergency Situations Ministry, said by telephone.