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Turkey — Turkey's state-run news agency is reporting that a methane gas explosion has ripped through a coal mine in western Turkey, trapping several miners. The Anatolia news agency says the blast Tuesday evening caused a shaft to collapse at the mine...
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China�China was rushing tents and other relief supplies to its northwestern Xinjiang region after heavy snow killed one person and forced the evacuation of nearly 5,500 others, state media said Sunday. Snowstorms which raged until Friday also "flattened"...
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The Environmental Protection Agency has dropped its objections to a permit that would allow a large West Virginia surface mining complex to continue operating, U.S...The Democratic congressman said EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson told him on New Years...
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However, he dropped the live attempt, which would have marked the World Hypnotism Day, exactly at the last minute. He was to hypnotise people who had signed up on his Social-Trance website. However, instead of half-hour live webcast, visitors to the site...
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Two coal mine accidents Sunday and Monday in China killed at least 17 miners, authorities said. Coal gas buildup caused a mineshaft to collapse early Monday, killing five workers and trapping six in a mine in Shuangbai County, Yunnan province, China Daily...
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Monday's accident is the latest to strike China's notoriously dangerous mining sector...China's coal mines are among the most dangerous in the world, with safety often ignored in the quest for profits and a drive to meet surging demand for coal, the source...
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A dynamite explosion caused the mine, near the town of Mustafakemalpasa in the province of Bursa, to collapse late on Thursday night, a local governor said. But Omer Dincer, Turkey's labour minister, said the cause of the blast at the Bukkoy mine was...
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Ala. — The federal Mine Safety and Health Administration is blaming low oxygen for the death of a coal miner at a west Alabama mine...The federal Mine Safety and Health Administration says he and another miner entered an area of low oxygen early Tuesday...
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The number of dead in China's worst mining accident in two years rose to 106 Wednesday after two more bodies were pulled out of the coal mine, state media said. The state-run Xinhua News Agency cited local authorities as saying the bodies of two workers...
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China, a massive consumer of fossil fuels and coal in particular, is trying to modernize its mines by containing emissions of methane and turning the toxic gas into a source of much-needed energy. Authorities in Beijing have made methane capture a government...
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