Hope fading for China miners
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More than a day and a half after a deadly gas explosion ripped through a coal mine in northwest China, rescuers are losing hope of finding 141 people still trapped underground.
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XINMI, China  - Desperate to know their loved ones' fates, grieving relatives scuffled with guards Friday at the scene of China's worst mining accident this year as rescue workers pulled more bodies out of a mine shaft choked with poison gas.
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From Africa to Russia, from Peru to China, mining companies face a problem: the workers who haul up the earth's riches are coming down with AIDS, and it is hampering operations at a time of booming demand for minerals.
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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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Shares in China Coal rise on their Shanghai debut but disappoint investors used to bigger gains.
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Desperate to know their loved ones' fates, grieving relatives scuffled with guards Friday at the scene of China's worst mining accident of 2004. Rescue workers pulled more bodies from a mine shaft choked with poison gas.
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Four workers are dead and 16 are missing after a fire at a mine in central China, as rescuers continued efforts to reach 36 miners unaccounted for after a flood in the country's southwest.
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Toxic gas hampered the search for 141 trapped coal miners Monday following an explosion in central China, and an official said their chances of survival were ``extremely slight.
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China's growing material wealth has eluded the countryside, but there is a bull market in sects competing for the souls of the rural poor.
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China's mines face a wave of accidents as they restart after the freezing weather, a top safety body warns.
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Crews searching for 57 coal miners trapped for five days by an underground flood began pumping water from their mine Tuesday, as residents began to lose hope for a successful rescue.
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Miners at the site of Sunday&#39;s coal mine blast in northwest China were forced to continue working after a fire broke out last week, reports said Tuesday.
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Rescuers were hoping Monday for any  chance to enter a colliery and search for 141 Chinese workers  trapped with scant hope of survival after a gas explosion in a  coal mine that has killed at least 25 -- the third such  accident in days.
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KHEWRA, Pakistan -- At Asia's oldest salt mine, the march of technology stopped generations ago. Bare-chested laborers use hand drills and gunpowder to blast away the pink and orange rock crystal, lucky if they earn a couple of dollars a day.
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Officials in northern China say hopes of finding more survivors of Sunday&#39;s mine blast are fading. Twenty-five bodies have been recovered and rescue workers on Monday battled thick smoke while
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Beijing, Oct 27 (PTI) The death toll in the coal mine tragedy in central China&#39;s Henan Province has reached 129 but chances of finding the 19 missing miners alive are very slim, the state media reported today.
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Rescue crews in China are attempting to reach at least 92 workers trapped in a coal mine following an explosion Wednesday that killed at least 60 people.