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On July 24, eighteen coal miners at the Quecreek Mine (/ k juː. k r i k /) in Lincoln Township, Somerset County, Pennsylvania, owned by Black Wolf Coal Company, accidentally dug into the abandoned, poorly documented Saxman Coal / Harrison #2 Mine, flooding the room and pillar mine with an estimated 75 million US gallons (280,000 cubic metres) of water.
The Risca colliery disasters were a series of catastrophic mine explosions near the Welsh town of Risca (then in the county of Monmouthshire) in the nineteenth century.The most serious of these were in 1860 when more than 140 died in the Black Vein colliery [1] and in 1880 when 120 died at the New Risca colliery.
The Somerset Coalfield covers a total area of about 240 square miles (622 km 2). [1] It consists of three synclines, informally referred to as 'coal basins'.The Pensford Syncline in the north and the Radstock Syncline in the south are separated by the east–west trending Farmborough Fault Belt. [2]
1970: Hurricane Creek mine disaster kills 38 in Eastern Kentucky. An explosion at Finley Mine on Hurricane Creek, near Hyden in Leslie County, killed 38 miners when the blast occurred Dec. 30, 1970.
Jul. 6—JOHNSTOWN, Pa. — Approximately 120 years ago, 112 miners walked into the Rolling Mill Mine portal on the morning of July 10, 1902, but none returned home that day. An explosion, caused ...
Mining accidents can occur from a variety of causes, including leaks of poisonous gases such as hydrogen sulfide [2] or explosive natural gases, especially firedamp or methane, [3] dust explosions, collapsing of mine stopes, mining-induced seismicity, flooding, or general mechanical errors from improperly used or malfunctioning mining equipment (such as safety lamps or electrical equipment).
Turkey’s worst mine disaster was in 2014, when 301 miners died after a fire erupted inside a coal mine in the town of Soma, in the west of the coun.
Speculator Mine disaster; Sunshine Mine This page was last edited on 6 October 2019, at 00:26 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...