socialistfuture
21st June 2007, 16:19
I'd like this thread to explore Coal Mining and the place it has in the world at current.
China has the worst coal mining condition in the world (well the deadliest). I watched a film not that long ago called 'the devils miner' about child slavery mining in south america. - anyone seen it?
http://www.thedevilsminer.com/index_new.html
Below is some media from one of the many incidents that occur in China.
A coal mine blast in northern China has killed two miners and trapped 10 others, state media said Wednesday, in the latest accident to strike the disaster-prone mining industry.
The explosion late Tuesday in Wuhai, a city in the Inner Mongolia region, occurred as 13 miners were working underground, the Xinhua News Agency reported.
One miner escaped. Two bodies have been retrieved with the other workers still missing, it said. Rescue efforts were under way.
The colliery, the privately owned Kanghai Coal Mine, was built in 1993 and produces 30,000 tons of coal a year, the agency said. It was undergoing a technical upgrade when the blast hit, it added.
Separately, there was still no word on the fate of 30 miners trapped in a flooded mine in northeast China's Jilin province since Sunday.
Some 69 miners were working at the Tengda Coal Mine in the city of Jiaohe when it flooded, and emergency workers on Monday rescued 39 miners from the pit alive, state media have said.
Rescuers were still looking for the remaining miners.
China's coal mines are the deadliest in the world, with thousands of deaths reported every year in fires, floods, cave-ins, gas leaks and other disasters.
Many accidents are blamed on lack of required equipment or indifference to safety rules, and China's surging energy needs are driving up demand for coal.
On Monday, the government said four people were killed when gas caught fire in a coal mine in the northern city of Gaoping.
China has the worst coal mining condition in the world (well the deadliest). I watched a film not that long ago called 'the devils miner' about child slavery mining in south america. - anyone seen it?
http://www.thedevilsminer.com/index_new.html
Below is some media from one of the many incidents that occur in China.
A coal mine blast in northern China has killed two miners and trapped 10 others, state media said Wednesday, in the latest accident to strike the disaster-prone mining industry.
The explosion late Tuesday in Wuhai, a city in the Inner Mongolia region, occurred as 13 miners were working underground, the Xinhua News Agency reported.
One miner escaped. Two bodies have been retrieved with the other workers still missing, it said. Rescue efforts were under way.
The colliery, the privately owned Kanghai Coal Mine, was built in 1993 and produces 30,000 tons of coal a year, the agency said. It was undergoing a technical upgrade when the blast hit, it added.
Separately, there was still no word on the fate of 30 miners trapped in a flooded mine in northeast China's Jilin province since Sunday.
Some 69 miners were working at the Tengda Coal Mine in the city of Jiaohe when it flooded, and emergency workers on Monday rescued 39 miners from the pit alive, state media have said.
Rescuers were still looking for the remaining miners.
China's coal mines are the deadliest in the world, with thousands of deaths reported every year in fires, floods, cave-ins, gas leaks and other disasters.
Many accidents are blamed on lack of required equipment or indifference to safety rules, and China's surging energy needs are driving up demand for coal.
On Monday, the government said four people were killed when gas caught fire in a coal mine in the northern city of Gaoping.