Fire forces Australian miners into shelters
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A total of 54 miners were sheltering in emergency chambers underground after a fire broke out at an Australian gold mine on Wednesday.
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Australia has mobilised the army as some of the worst bushfires in 70 years threatened homes and shrouded Victoria state in thick smoke that closed the airport and grounded firefighting aircraft.
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A sixth bore hole, drilled into a space where six trapped Utah miners were thought to be working when the mine collapsed on August 6, has revealed that the chamber contains no space where the men could have survived, an attorney representing some of the miners' family members said Saturday.
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Low temperatures complicate efforts to reach trapped miners after a blast kills at least 203 in China.
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A fire at a Western Australian gold mine leaves 54 miners trapped underground, according to local media.
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A wall of thick smoke blocked rescuers on Monday from 141 Chinese miners trapped after a gas explosion in a coal mine in northern China that killed at least 25, and
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Firefighters brought Australia's  deadliest bushfires in 20 years under control on Wednesday  after nine people died in the blazes.
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A fire broke out at a coal mine in Siberia on Thursday, trapping at least 19 miners, a Russian emergency official said.
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A fire at a coal mine in northern China  has trapped 15 workers and has been burning since Wednesday,  the official Xinhua news agency said.
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A firefighter died and more than a dozen houses in two states were razed by wildfires that flared across south-eastern Australia yesterday as high temperatures and blustery winds whipped up massive firestorms.
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A mine explosion left more than 160 miners trapped underground Sunday.
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More than 100 men are trapped and feared dead after a gas explosion at a coal mine in central China on Sunday. Dangerous carbon monoxide levels are hampering rescue efforts, but one official said it was impossible for anyone to have survived.
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Thirty-three miners were confirmed dead yesterday in a fire that broke out on Saturday morning at five iron mines in Shahe, North China&#39;s Hebei Province.
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An explosion at the state owned Chenjiashan coalmine in China has trapped 177 miners. Eighty have so far managed to escape yet officials estimate that 177 miners remain trapped.
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Beijing - The number of fatalities in an underground fire in an iron ore mine rose to 48, officials with the government&#39;s worker protection administration said.
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BEIJING - At least thirty-threeminers were confirmed dead and rescue teams were battling to reach a further 61 trapped underground after a fire at five iron ore mines in northern China, officials and media said yesterday.
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Fire broke out on Thursday at a gold   mine in Russia's Eastern Siberia owned by London-listed   Highland Gold Mining, trapping at least 19 workers underground,   emergency officials said.