Trapped miners ate coal, drank urine
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The Meng brothers felt pretty good about their chances of making it out of the collapsed coal mine, until the sound of digging from outside stopped.
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A wall of thick smoke blocked rescuers on Monday from 141 Chinese miners trapped after a gas explosion in a coal mine in northern China that killed at least 25, and officials saw scant hope of finding more survivors.
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About 123 miners escaped a major Sunday gas explosion at a mine in China, but more than 170 were reported trapped underground. The state-owned Chenjiashan Coalmine, under the
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By 6 pm on Sunday, 127 miners wererescued alive after a major gas explosion took place at the Chenjiashan Coalmine, Shaanxi Province, around 7:10 am but another 166 remained trapped underground.
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At least 25 miners have been killed and some 140 are trapped after a gas explosion at a coal mine in northern China. The official Xinhua newsagency says of the 293 miners working underground when the blast
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A gas explosion that tore through a coal mine in central China trapped 166 workers in underground shafts filled with noxious smoke in the latest and apparently the deadliest of a
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The coal mine where five miners were killed in an explosion last spring in eastern Kentucky has been sealed and the mine abandoned, federal regulators said.
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BEIJING - More than 140 miners remained trapped in the tunnels and shafts of a coal mine in central China after an explosion Sunday that killed 25 of their colleagues, the government said.
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Two brothers who tunneled out of a collapsed mine were forced to eat coal and drink urine during the nearly six-day ordeal, but still were able to crack jokes about their wives remarrying once they were dead, a state-run newspaper reported Tuesday.
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A woman breaks down after she was told the fate of her husband, one of the miners trapped in the Chenjiashan coal mine in Tongchuan city, north China&#39;s Shaanxi province November 29.
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Thirty-seven of 54 miners, trapped in an Australian underground gold mine by a fire, have been rescued, local media reported on Wednesday.
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At least three miners die and some 27 others are trapped in a Colombian coal mine after a gas blast, officials say.
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For nearly four weeks a mining community in central Utah held out hope that six men trapped in a coal mine cave-in would be found alive. That hope is gone now that federal mine officials have suspended the search for the men.
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Rescuers found the bodies of at least 11  miners trapped underground by a fire at a gold mine in Eastern  Siberia and searched for more than 20 missing, officials said  on Friday.
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BEIJING: All the coal miners trapped after a gas explosion in a shaft in norther China are dead, bringing the toll to 166 in one of the worst disasters to hit the world&#39;s most dangerous mining industry, state media said yesterday.
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BEIJING  - A gas explosion ripped through a coal mine in north China&#39;s Shaanxi province, trapping 170 miners in what threatens to be the worst disaster to hit the world&#39;s biggest coal producer in recent years.
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Rescuers trying to reach 141 miners trapped by an underground explosion were pumping noxious fumes out of a Chinese coal mine Monday but an official said their chances of survival were &quot;extremely slight.