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  2. Mine rescue - Wikipedia

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    Training for mine rescuers conducted aboveground A video describing challenges experienced by mine rescue personnel. Mine rescue or mines rescue is the specialised job of rescuing miners and others who have become trapped or injured in underground mines because of mining accidents, roof falls or floods and disasters such as explosions.

  3. Gorniczy Agregat Gasniczy - Wikipedia

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    GAG units have been used in Australia, most notably in 2000 at the Blair Athol Mine, Queensland, where one extinguished a 54-year-old coal fire. [7] In 2003, a team from the Queensland Mine Rescue Service took a unit to West Virginia, where they successfully extinguished a 660-foot (200 m) deep, two-month-old fire at Loveridge Mine, after ten days of continuous use.

  4. Self-contained self-rescue device - Wikipedia

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    Test bench for a miner's closed circuit self-rescuers. A self-contained self-rescue device, SCSR, self-contained self-rescuer, or air pack is a type of closed-circuit SCBA [1] with a portable oxygen source for providing breathable air when the surrounding atmosphere lacks oxygen or is contaminated with toxic gases, e.g. carbon monoxide.

  5. Colorado investigators blame 'operator error' in deadly 2024 ...

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    The incident raised questions about the mine's practices and equipment. A cease-and-desist order was placed on the tourist mine following the incident, according to the sheriff’s office.

  6. Why hundreds of miners are still trapped and starving in an ...

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    A community-led rescue effort began bringing survivors and bodies out of the Buffelsfontein mine on Friday, while authorities started an official rescue and recovery effort using a cage lowered ...

  7. 2010 Copiapó mining accident - Wikipedia

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    The 2010 Copiapó mining accident, also known as the "Chilean mining accident", began on 5 August 2010, with a cave-in at the San José copper–gold mine, located in the Atacama Desert, 45 kilometers (28 mi) north of the regional capital of Copiapó, in northern Chile. 33 men were trapped 700 meters (2,300 ft) underground and 5 kilometers (3 mi) from the mine's entrance and were rescued after ...

  8. 12 rescued from underground mine after fatality during tour - AOL

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    A rescue operation in Colorado on Thursday to bring trapped mining tour visitors out of an underground mine was successful, seven hours after one person died and four others were injured.. Gov ...

  9. Fénix capsules - Wikipedia

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    Diagram of the rescue capsule "Fenix" class and the miner equipment used in the Copiapó accident of 2010 rescue. The Fénix capsules were designed by the Chilean Navy, in collaboration with the United States space agency NASA. They have a diameter of 54 centimetres (21 in), and have eight wheels located on the top and the bottom, with a ...