Final bore hole at Utah mine finds no sign of life
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A sixth bore hole, drilled into a space where six trapped Utah miners were thought to be working when the mine collapsed on August 6, has revealed that the chamber contains no space where the men could have survived, an attorney representing some of the miners' family members said Saturday.
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BEIJING - At least thirty-threeminers were confirmed dead and rescue teams were battling to reach a further 61 trapped underground after a fire at five iron ore mines in northern China, officials and media said yesterday.
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SNOWBIRD - The mining industry helped build Utah&#39;s economy, but boom-time digging led to a modern-day landscape pockmarked with holes that once produced silver, gold, copper and lead.
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Hopes were fading yesterday for more than 100 coal miners missing after an explosion in a Chinese mine, as toxic fumes hindered rescuers.
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The search for a missing 12-year-old Boy Scout in a mountainous area of Utah was officially labeled a recovery operation Tuesday as authorities all but gave up hope of finding the boy alive.
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A methane blast in a Siberian mine shaft has killed at least 10 people and injured 30, a Russian Government spokesman has said. The blast ripped through the mine as a 45-strong repair team was patching up
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Authorities say the chances of survival of more than 50 miners trapped in India's Jharkhand state are "zero".
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Rescuers on Friday found the dead bodies   of nine miners trapped underground by a fire at a gold mine in   Eastern Siberia and continued to search for more than 20   others, officials said.
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Although rescuers are hoping to be able to enter the mine today, officials believe there is very little hope of finding survivors.
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SALT LAKE CITY, Aug. 31 -- Federal officials have indefinitely suspended efforts to find six men trapped for nearly four weeks inside a Utah coal mine after a robotic camera failed to provide any useful information, an attorney for the men's families said Friday.
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Crews searching for any sign of six miners trapped for more than three weeks are "hoping a miracle could happen," a federal official told lawmakers Wednesday, while another hole was drilled to insert a robotic camera into the mountain.
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SURABAYA, Indonesia - Indonesian engineers temporarily halted an attempt to plug a fissure that has been gushing mud for nine months, after a steel cable hoisting cement balls into the crater broke Saturday, officials said.
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An oil companyâs plan to begin exploratory drilling near the remote site of Robert Smithsonâs âSpiral Jettyâ along the Great Salt Lake in Utah has stirred an impassioned response from artists and others who fear that the project could endanger that massive artwork. The jetty, a 1,500-foot-long curlicue of salt crystals, rocks and mud jutting into the lake, was completed by Smithson in 1970, three years before he died in a plane crash. The State of Utah, which must approve any plan for drilling in the area, decided recently to extend a period for public comment on the proposal until Feb. 13. John Harja, who runs the stateâs public land policy coordinating office, said on Tuesday that the office had received 900 letters, e-mail messages and calls about the issue in the last several days. Richard Moe, president of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, issued a statement calling the jetty âa significant cultural siteâ and saying that the trust was âdeeply concerned about the potential harm that energy development could bringâ to it.
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The final death toll from a fire at a   remote Russian gold mine reached 25 on Sunday as rescuers found   the bodies of four men, the last of the miners trapped deep   underground three days earlier.
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Another bore hole will be drilled in the Utah mine where six miners were trapped nearly three weeks ago, a federal mining official said Sunday afternoon.
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More than two weeks after landing, team members waited for news of the first hole to be drilled on Mars. Spirit was to use its rock abrasion tool to grind a hole in a rock dubbed "Adirondack." Spirit then developed a technical problem that threatened the mission. This is part four of a five-part series covering the Mars rover missions.
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An underground gas explosion in a mine in central China has killed at least 56 workers and left almost 100 missing in one of the worst mining disasters in recent memory, officials said today.