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Rat-hole mining is a controversial practice that involves teams using hand-held drills in very tight spaces, while others remove muck and broken rock back down the shaft.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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.
The Chief Minister of Meghalaya, Conrad Sangma, has called for regulation of mining in the state, admitting that illegal mining happens in the state. [9] [21] Meghalaya Police arrested the owner of the coal mine on 15 December 2018. [10] Congress leader Rahul Gandhi criticised the Narendra Modi government over the issue. [11] [22]
Breakthrough in 17 days of struggle to free the men come as specialised ‘rat-hole miners’ are called in to manually clear debris
This article, and several others, reference the "rat-hole" mining technique. I think we ought to have an article on that. Nø 08:42, 29 November 2023 (UTC) yeah, i was surprised to find no article about it. Leoneix 13:54, 29 November 2023 (UTC)