Fire traps 31 at Russian gold mine
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Rescuers battled thick smoke and   blistering temperatures on Thursday as they tried to reach more   than 30 miners trapped underground by a fire at a gold mine in   Siberia.
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A methane blast in a coal mine in southern Siberia kills at least 21 people, Russian officials say.
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Rescuers on Sunday found the bodies of   the last four miners trapped deep underground at a remote   Russian gold mine, bringing the final death toll to 25.
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Twenty-three people died and three others were injured Sunday in an explosion at a mine in the Karaganda region of Kazakhstan, officials said.
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ANKARA: A fire tore through a copper mine in northern Turkey yesterday, killing 19 workers trapped deep underground and injuring 17 others.
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Gold miners on  Russia&#39;s Kamchatka peninsula contend with volcanic eruptions,  floods and poor infrastructure, but high metal prices mean the  hard work pays off.
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Rescuers recovered the bodies of 11 miners and were looking Saturday for 22 others missing in a gold mine fire in Siberia, a Russian emergency official saia.
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Beijing: At least 170 miners were trapped underground after a gas explosion on Sunday ignited a fire in a coalmine in north-west China&#39;s Shaanxi province, reports said.
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An explosion in an illegal Chinese coal mine has killed eight miners and left an undetermined number missing, even as rescuers continued draining another flooded mine where at least 57 men are trapped and feared dead, officials and state-run media said Wednesday.
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Eight miners were confirmed dead up to 8:00 am Sunday in the five iron mines that caught fire Saturday morning in the city of Shahe in north China&#39;s Hebei Province, while 19 were rescued and 79 still trapped.
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PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKY, Russia  - Gold miners on Russia's Kamchatka peninsula contend with volcanic eruptions, floods and poor infrastructure, but high metal prices mean the hard work pays off.
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At least 35 miners were dead and three missing after a methane gas explosion Thursday at a coal mine in southwestern Siberia, the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations said, Russia's Interfax news agency reported. Officials said 179 miners were rescued -- seven of them were injured.
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Nine Chinese miners have been killed and 57 trapped underground after fire swept through a series of iron mines in the northern province of Hebei, Xinhua news agency has reported.
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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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At least 49 miners were confirmed dead and 11 missing following a massive blaze at a complex of iron mines in northern China, the government reported Monday.
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A fire at a Western Australian gold mine leaves 54 miners trapped underground, according to local media.
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A total of 54 miners were sheltering in  emergency chambers underground after a fire broke out at an  Australian gold mine on Wednesday.