Way of Life Wanes for Anthracite Miners
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The scars are barely visible much of the time, hidden beneath a veil of black. Only in the evenings, when the men wash away the day's grime, do they come to light.
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KAMP-LINTFORT, Germany  - A tidy German town that has long flourished above its underground treasure of subsidized coal is struggling to cope with the shock after the government decided last week to shut down the mine.
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China, home to the world's deadliest  mining industry, could be faced with a new wave of accidents as  collieries start operations again following severe winter  weather which forced many to close.
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Black lung disease is posing a greater threat to coal miners in far southwest Virginia, and scientists aren't sure why.
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China, home to the world's deadliest mining industry, could be faced with a new wave of accidents as collieries start operations again following severe winter weather which forced many to close.
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By Joe Walker, The Paducah Sun, Ky.  Dec. 17--Al Puckett remembers the 1960s when Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant supervisors ordered a worker to bury uranium waste in a gravel pit west of the plant on Saturdays.
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Miners at the site of Sunday&#39;s coal mine blast in northwest China were forced to continue working after a fire broke out last week, reports said Tuesday.
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Using picks, shovels and even their hands, hundreds of coal miners have worked around the clock for a year to recover the bodies of 65 co-workers lost in an explosion. So far, frustrated searchers have only found two.
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Some mine disasters happen in a flash, like the Utah cave-in last month that apparently entombed six coal miners. Others unfold in slow motion.
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In mourning after the death of 23 colleagues in Poland's worst mining accident in three decades, the hard-bitten miners of the Silesian coalbelt remain deeply tied to their tough livelihood.
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By Dan Buglass rural affairs editor  THE days when farmers paid scant regard to the environment and their custody of the countryside are long gone.
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The steelmaker isn't having a blast, but it is buttressed against adversity.
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MERERANI, Tanzania  - The orange sun sets over the  Tanzanian mining town of Mererani as pick-up trucks take the  night shift to pits producing blue Tanzanite gemstones, and  tired workers trudge home in the opposite direction.
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Officials in northern China say hopes of finding more survivors of Sunday&#39;s mine blast are fading. Twenty-five bodies have been recovered and rescue workers on Monday battled thick smoke while
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RUDA SLASKA, Poland  - Hopes of saving 15 miners trapped deep underground in a Polish coal mine faded on Wednesday as rising gas levels and flooding forced a temporary break in rescue efforts.
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JHARIA, India  - Indian rescue teams struggled on   Friday to locate and remove the charred bodies of 54 miners   killed after the roof of a state-owned coal mine collapsed   following an explosion, authorities said.
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Leaving jobs at global giants, small miners are striking out for Mexicoâs Sierra Madre mountains.