gold miners

Sixty Ecuador Miners Trapped After Blast

admin_huliq — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 08:20:23 -0600

Sixty miners have been trapped overnight in an underground gold mine in southern Ecuador after an explosion there killed at least one person, officials said.

Bodies of 23 South African Miners Discovered

Dinka — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 22:18:15 -0500

Police in South Africa say the bodies of 23 miners killed by an underground fire last week have been recovered. A police spokesman says the miners were working illegally at a mine in Free State province when the fire broke out on Tuesday.

All trapped miners rescued in South Africa

Dinka — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 08:35:11 -0500

The last of 3,200 miners trapped deep in a South African mine shaft have come to the surface, capping a day-long rescue mission that began with fears of the worst and ended in wild celebrations.

1,650 South African miners rescued

Dinka — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 09:09:02 -0500

An operation to rescue more than 3,000 trapped miners in South Africa is proceeding well and so far 1,650 miners have made it to the surface.

South African miners rescued after underground ordeal

admin_huliq — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 08:07:52 -0500

Thousands of miners were being painstakingly brought to the surface after spending hours trapped more than two kilometres underground at a gold mine in South Africa.

Over 3000 Trapped in South Africa Mine, Rescue Under Way

admin_huliq — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 20:08:48 -0500

Mining Accident in South Africa Traps 3,000 In a Gold Mine; Rescue Operations Under Way.

Gold miners threaten new wave of mercury pollution

harminka — Mon, 28 May 2007 12:39:56 -0500

Could tons of neurotoxic mercury now stored in the United States wind up in the hands of poverty-stricken gold miners in developing countries and eventually be released into the environment, where it could end up entering the human food chain" An article scheduled for the May 28 issue of Chemical & Engineering News, ACS' weekly newsmagazine, explores that possibility in a script that reads like an environmental version of the hit film, Blood Diamond.