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Rat-hole mining or Rat mining [1] is a process of digging employed in North East India to extract coal, where a narrow hole is manually dug by extraction workers. The practice is banned by the National Green Tribunal; [2] [3] however, the techniques are still employed by artisanal mining operations in several parts of India, especially in Meghalaya.
Rescue workers standing near the illegal rat-hole mine. The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), State Disaster Response Force (SDRF), Indian Army, and the Navy have been deployed to the site. 100 rescuers in total are said to be at the site. [4] As of 16 January, the bodies of four workers are said to have been recovered from the site. [5]
In 2018, 15 men involved in rat-hole mining in Meghalaya were killed after they became trapped for days due to flooding. After rescue work stretching on for around two months, only two bodies ...
[1] [2] [3] The miners were trapped inside the coal mine at a depth of around 370 feet (110 meters) in Jaintia Hills district after digging with the rat-hole mining technique. The tunnel the miners were in flooded with water after they cut into an adjacent mine which was full of water from the nearby Lytein river. [4] [5] [6]
‘Rat-hole miners’ appear to have played key role in final breakthrough to reach 41 trapped construction workers
When heavy machinery broke down trying to break through the debris trapping 41 workers in a tunnel in the Indian Himalayas, authorities called in a group of people whose profession is effectively ...
Though the initial attempts at a rescue were complicated because of the kinds of debris created in the collapse, the government brought in "rat-hole" miners who were able to use manual mining methods to get an access pipe to the trapped workers. [9] All 41 workers were rescued, and the collapse triggered a safety audit of other tunnels in the area.
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