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(JEFF GENTNER/The Associated Press) Clay Mullins, brother of Rex Mullins, a victim of the Upper Big Branch mine explosion, meets with officials from the U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration, Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2011 in Beaver, W.Va. Officals said that the new owners of the West Virginia coal mine where 29 men were killed in an April 2010 explosion, would pay a record $210 million to cover fines, compensate victims’ grieving families and improve underground safety.

Families demand prosecutions in W.Va. mine blast

Lawrence Messina, Vicki Smith The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, December 7, 2011 - 8:59am

BEAVER, W.Va. — Money — even a lot of it — is cold comfort to some relatives of the 29 men who died in the worst mining disaster in decades. They want justice, the kind that comes with a courtroom and a prison cell.

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In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, rescuers carry an injured miner out of the Qianqiu Coal Mine of Yima Coal Group in Sanmenxia City, central China's Henan Province, Friday, Nov. 4, 2011. Rescuers pulled seven injured miners to the surface Friday and were trying to reach 50 others trapped after a rock explosion Thursday in the coal mine, the state media reported. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Zhu Xiang)

4 dead, 50 missing in Chinese mining accident

Andreas Landwehr Deutsche Presse-Agentur

Last updated Friday, November 4, 2011 - 2:19pm

4 dead, 50 missing in Chinese mining accident

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BEIJING -- Four coal miners were killed in an accident in central China, while 50 were trapped, a news report said Friday.

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In probe of 29 miners' deaths, Massey official arrested

Daniel Malloy, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Last updated Tuesday, March 1, 2011 - 2:44pm

WASHINGTON -- Criminal investigators sent an aggressive signal in probing the fatal Upper Big Branch mine explosion Monday with the arrest of a top security official on a pair of felony charges.

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An aerial view shows the Pike River Coal mine near Atarau, the site of an underground explosion, Friday, Nov. 19, 2010, while about 30 people were underground. Five workers, dazed and slightly injured, stumbled to the surface, while more than two dozen are missing. (Stewart Nimmo/Associated Press)

Two dozen miners missing in New Zealand mine explosion

The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, November 19, 2010 - 11:13am

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They're all out: 33 miners raised safely in Chile

The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, October 14, 2010 - 7:37am

SAN JOSE MINE, Chile — The longest underground nightmare in history ended safely — and faster than anyone expected.

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Chilean ordeal over; all 33 miners safe

The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, October 13, 2010 - 10:39pm

SAN JOSE MINE, Chile -- The last of the Chilean miners, the foreman who held them together when they were feared lost, was raised from the depths of the earth Wednesday night -- a joyous ending to a 69-day ordeal that riveted the world. No one has ever been trapped so long and survived.

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HUGO INFANTE, Chilean government/The Associated Press
In this photo released by the Chilean government, miner Esteban Rojas, 44, gets on his knees to pray after being rescued from the collapsed San Jose gold and copper mine, near Copiapo, Chile, Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2010. Rojas was the eighteenth of the 33 miners rescued from the mine after more than two months trapped underground.

Looking healthy, two-thirds of trapped miners free

Frank Bajak, The Associated Press, Vivian Seouera

Last updated Wednesday, October 13, 2010 - 2:49pm

SAN JOSE MINE, Chile — The miners who spent 69 agonizing days deep under the Chilean earth were hoisted one by one to freedom Wednesday, their rescue moving with remarkable speed while their countrymen erupted in cheers and the world watched transfixed.

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