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New Zealand colliery discharged work force
Most of the remaining work force at a New Zealand colliery where 29 miners died in an explosion last month were discharged Tuesday in a move unions said was a cruel blow before Christmas. Receiver Price water house Coopers said 114 of the 157 employees at Pike River Coal would be made redundant immediately as…
Read MoreAn Australian mining expert will help in resuming the 29 miners in New Zealand mine explosion
Emergency crews in New Zealand have been unable to recover the bodies miners as the mine remains flooded with explosive methane gas.The miners, who had been trapped underground for more than five days, were declared dead on Wednesday afternoon after the second explosion ripped through the underground tunnels. An Australian mining expert has been called…
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