Trapped for 2 weeks, 11 workers rescued from China gold mine
Source: AP
BEIJING (AP) — Eleven workers trapped for two weeks by an explosion inside a Chinese gold mine were brought safely to the surface on Sunday.
State broadcaster CCTV showed workers being hauled up one-by-one in baskets on Sunday afternoon, their eyes shielded to protect them after so many days in darkness.
One worker was reported to have died from a head wound following the blast that deposited massive amounts of rubble in the shaft on Jan. 10 while the mine was still under construction.
The fate of 10 others who were underground at the time is unknown. Authorities have detained mine managers for delaying reporting the accident.
In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, rescuers carry a miner who was trapped in a gold mine in Qixia City in east China's Shandong Province, Sunday, Jan. 24, 2021. Rescuers in China on Sunday lifted several trapped miners to the surface who were trapped for two weeks after an explosion in a northern gold mine, state media reported. (Luan Qincheng/Xinhua via AP)
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To get me to go down there...
... Heres a pic of the Bethlehem mines
Just found this. This is a strip mine that was abandoned in the thirties about a mile from the farm my grandparents lived on Nanny Glo. I was at this mine in the late fifties, early sixties. It was truly other worldly even for a kid like me. To get there we had to walk through a little civil war cemetery, I remember seeing the "Schumacher" name on several stones because the Schumacher family still had a dairy operation, they still hand milked their cows and lived up the road about a quarter mile.
Here's the inside of the mine around the time that my grandfather retired with black lung.
