Two of four trapped Ecuadorean miners found dead

[Tx4obama]

Source: Reuters (via TPM)

QUITO (Reuters) - Two of four men trapped in an Ecuadorean mine cave-in were found dead on Saturday in the latest accident to hit the industry in Latin America.

Contrasting with the jubilation at this week's rescue of 33 miners in Chile, the two Ecuadorean miners' bodies were brought out to disconsolate relatives and officials at the small gold mine in Portovelo near the Peruvian border.

The miners were trapped some 500 feet underground when a tunnel collapsed early on Friday. Officials blamed the accident on water leaks.

"We have found two bodies. The rescue operation continues and we think the other two have a good chance of being alive," government mining official Jorge Espinosa told Reuters. "They were working in the part above the collapse."

Read more: http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/news/2010/10/two_of_four_trapped_ecuadorean_miners_found_dead.php?ref=fpa

[Bobbieo]

1. This story is really an anti-climax to the 'good news' reports from Chile.

Are we ever going to stop mining corporations from getting away with not comforming to mine safety regulations? Same with oil companies.

[Tx4obama]

2. Also HUGE mine accident in China...

Deadly Blast Traps Miners in China

Source: Associated Press

Filed at 12:46 a.m. ET

BEIJING (AP) — An explosion in a Chinese coal mine killed 20 and trapped more than 30 workers underground Saturday in the country's central region, state media reported.

The China blast comes shortly after the world was riveted by the Chile's dramatic rescue of 33 trapped miners after they spent more than two months underground.

China Central Television said the blast happened Saturday morning in Henan province. An official surnamed Wu with the province's coal mine safety bureau confirmed accident but had no details.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4577158

[Tx4obama]

3. China Update: 21 dead so far

21 killed in China coal mine blast

Beijing, China (CNN) -- A gas explosion Saturday killed at least 21 workers and 16 others were trapped at a coal mine in central China, authorities told state-run media.

Rescuers have retrieved 20 bodies so far, the official Xinhua news agency reported. The 16 trapped miners have been located but rescuers have to clear coal dust from the shaft in order to reach them.

China's State Administration of Work Safety said about 276 workers were underground in the mine in Henan province when the blast occurred. Of those, 239 escaped.

The same mine reported another explosion in August 2008, that killed 23 miners.

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There are THREE mines right now with trapped miners: China, Ecuador, and Colombia.

[underpants]

5. You me and the other people who read this particular thread will be the only ones who know this

there will be no coverage of this on the MSM

[Control-Z]

6. I actually read about all three

in other places, but I doubt you're far off. I was sad to think how these trapped miners were not sensational enough for the attention, and even perhaps the level of rescue effort, that was made for the Chilean miners. Their families must be devastated.

[Bobbieo]

7. UP - What really upsets me in our country are the legislators who are being paid by lobbyists

to undercut mine safety regulations, etc. Forgive me, but I am 87 and have forgotten the story I did (without visible references) on the Navajos and the Congressman who tried to lower the standards on mine safety in their area. It might even had been a Democrat in NM or AZ.

What really ticks me off are the reports I got before the last election that Bush was making lame duck political appointments, mostly to the Dept of Interior Bureaus and Offices. Looks like those appointees are still around and available to anti-environmemtal lobbyists.

[underpants]

8. There are still Bush/CHENEY sleeper cells all over our government

It is hard to get rid of them

Homeland Security is infamous for the lame political appointees they dumped in there. Interior and others are surely rife with their taint.

[readmoreoften]

4. So terrible.

:(