ITN News
| Mar 30, 2013
Over 2000 people have become involved in rescue operations in Tibet after a massive landslide trapped 83 workers. According to Chinese state media, the landslide swept through an area of around three kilometers, burying a camp of workers who were ...
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CCTV News
| Dec 3, 2012
Fourteen coal miners were trapped underground by a flood in Qitaihe, Heilongjiang province, this past weekend. State-run CCTV News interviews two of the rescued miners in the hospital, and has footage of the mine's owner being questioned about the...
eNews Channel Africa
| Sep 19, 2012
While miners celebrated a 22 percent wage increase and the end of their labor dispute at Marikana, Lonmin Platinum Mine announced it is shutting down its K4 shaft in Rustenburg. The closure will leave more than 1,000 miners unemployed. Lonmin says...
City Press Online
| Sep 18, 2012
Controversial South African politician Julius Malema was barred from addressing miners at Marikana on Monday, and escorted from the rally by police amid angry and chaotic scenes.
CNN
| Sep 14, 2012
Amid a leadership vacuum in South Africa, critics claim the miners' strike is being hijacked. Many of the protestors arrested following the fatal shooting by police at Marikana - and even some of the dead - were not employees of Lonmin. Nkepile Ma...
Al Jazeera English
| Sep 11, 2012
Thousands of people have descended upon Marikana in a display of solidarity with the striking miners, all saying the workers' pay rise demand is "non-negotiable". But without a return to work, mediators, unions, and mine bosses say they will walk...
Al Jazeera English
| Sep 3, 2012
Dozens of detained South African miners were freed Monday after murder charges against them were dropped. South African authorities had been using a law last used during the apartheid era to bring murder charges against the miners. They were ...
Channel 4 News
| Sep 1, 2012
A South African miner arrested for an alleged murder claims he was abused and tortured by police. Complaints of police brutality are surfacing in relation to the shooting of 34 miners at the Marikana mine in August. South African authorities are u...
Al Jazeera English
| Aug 31, 2012
South African authorities have used a law last used in the apartheid era to bring murder charges against 270 miners involved in unrest at the Marikana mine earlier this month.
The 270 workers would be tried under the "common purpose" doctrine bec...
Associated Press
| Aug 29, 2012
Some of the South African miners who were arrested at the same protest where police opened fire and killed 34 of their colleagues appeared in court near Pretoria on Wednesday. Friends and relatives demonstrated outside of the courthouse claiming t...
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...said Davis R. Marak, the police chief of South Garo Hills. This is the second major mine accident in South Garo Hills. In July last year, 15 min...
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A miner is a person who extracts ore, coal, or other minerals from the earth through mining. There are two conceptions as to what this includes. In its narrowest understanding, "miners" are solely those persons who work at the face cutting, blasting, or otherwise working and removing the rock. In the broader understanding, a "miner" also includes any other laborer working within a mine, not just working the rock itself. This article will consider this broader concept.
There have been miners since humans first began mining. In regions with a long mining tradition, many communities have developed cultural traditions and aspects specific to the various regions, in the forms of particular equipment, symbolism, music, and the like.
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