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Gas delays search for 27 miners in New Zealand

Rescue crews waited impatiently outside one of New Zealand's largest coal mines Friday night for the all-clear to begin a search for 27 men missing after a powerful gas explosion struck deep underground.

 

Little hope for miners in latest China disaster

There is little hope of finding alive 11 missing coal miners trapped after a gas leak in central China that already killed 26 people, state media said Monday of the country's latest mining disaster.

 

58 trapped after China mine blast

An underground explosion in a coal mine in central China's Henan Province trapped at least 58 miners early Monday, Chinese state media reported.

 

2 miners missing in Ky. coal mine rock fall

2 miners missing in Ky. coal mine rock fall

Two miners were missing Thursday and rescuers were unable to contact them after a roof collapsed in a large underground coal mine in western Kentucky, company and union officials said.

 

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