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A fictionalized version of La Belle served as the setting of the 2017 Netflix series Godless. In the series, 83 men were killed in a mining accident, which was based on other mining disasters but never actually took place in La Belle. [5] The infamous outlaw Black Jack Ketchum was captured in La Belle in 1899 and later hanged.
This was the work of Frank's gang, and Roy Goode, a former member, rode off with the money that they had stolen from the train in an attempt to draw the gang away. Wounded, Roy seeks help at the ranch of Alice Fletcher outside La Belle, New Mexico, a town consisting of mostly women after almost all the men died in a mining accident.
The Second Dawson Disasters was a mining accident on February 8, 1923, in Dawson, New Mexico in which 123 men died. The Speculator Mine Disaster occurred in the copper mines of Butte, Montana on June 8, 1917.
Families grew increasingly anxious on Thursday as they awaited word from rescue teams tasked with descending a flooded coal mine in northern Mexico to rescue 10 workers nearly 24 hours after an ...
Two mining claims remain in the area, records show, and mining for metals like gold, silver and copper dates back to the 1900s. A uranium mining pit was established in 1954 but was closed the same ...
Mexico is pursuing a criminal complaint against the country's biggest copper producer seeking to force a new remediation effort for a toxic mine spill in the northern state of Sonora nine years ...
About 15,000 sought medical treatment for exposure to the smoke. On April 15, 2013, the US Chemical Safety Board released their preliminary report citing Chevron for a chronic failure to replace aging equipment and called for an overhaul of regulatory oversight of the industry to prevent such accidents from happening again.
At around 5:30 am on July 16, 1979, a previously identified crack opened into a 20-foot-breach (6.1 m) in the south cell of United Nuclear Corporation's Church Rock temporary uranium mill tailings disposal pond, and 1,100 short tons (1,000 t) of solid radioactive mill waste and about 93 million US gallons (350,000 m 3) of acidic, radioactive tailings solution flowed into Pipeline Arroyo, a ...