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A look at long-term survival in mine accidents
By The Associated Press
Updated: 5:58 p.m. ET Aug 13, 2007
A look at mine accidents and the how long trapped miners survived until they were rescued, listed from the longest to the shortest span of time:
_ January 1983: Two coal miners rescued after 23 days in northeast China.
_ September 1982: Four South Korean coal miners rescued after 14 days.
_ May 2006: Two miners rescued after being trapped for 14 days following a collapse at the Beaconsfield Gold Mine in Tasmania, Australia.
_ November 2005: A coal miner in northern China rescued after 11 days.
_ May 1968: Six miners rescued after ten days, in Hominy Falls, WVa.; days earlier, 15 miners had been rescued after five days.
_ October 1958: 12 coal miners survive six days at Springhill, Nova Scotia.
_ July 2002: Nine coal miners rescued after surviving eight days in a mine in northwestern China.
_ July 1996: Three miners survived eight days trapped in a flooded mine in southern China, living off water that came up to their necks.
_ May 1972: Two miners rescued after eight days in northern Idaho.
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Associated Press researcher Rhonda Shafner contributed to this report.
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Sources: Associated Press archives, U.S. Mine Rescue Association
