3,200 workers are stuck 1.4 miles underground |
Welcome Guest ( Log In | Register )
Welcome to ThoughtVent, a free community where you can talk to your peers about whatever you want. Using the site is easy and fun. Once registered, simply click on the category that fits your topic and click on the New Topic button to start talking with our other members. Registration is fast, simple and absolutely free.
Click here to Register!
 ·
 ·
 ·
 ·
 ·
 ·
 ·
 ·
 ·
 ·
 ·
 ·
 |
  |
3,200 workers are stuck 1.4 miles underground |
 Oct 4 2007, 12:45 PM
Post
#1
|
|
 Venting Addict  Group: Members Posts: 612 Joined: 21-September 07 From: 1AU from a G2V Star Member No.: 81  |
QUOTE Oct. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Harmony Gold Mining Co., Africa's third-largest gold producer, said 3,200 workers are stuck more than a mile underground at its Elandsrand mine in South Africa after a falling pipe damaged the shaft.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=206...358FvodGDc& -------------------- "Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts." "Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster"    |
 |
 
|
|
Oct 4 2007, 03:22 PM
Post
#2
|
|
 Who's your Daddy? Group: Moderator Posts: 2,072 Joined: 13-August 07 From: Tampa Bay Area, Florida, USA Member No.: 11 |
QUOTE An adjacent shaft normally used to haul waste is being refitted so that rescuers can start hoisting 300 miners an hour to the surface by midnight local time, she said. Here's hoping that goes well. -------------------- I know you think you understand what you thought I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant!  |
|
|
|
|
Oct 11 2007, 01:51 PM
Post
#3
|
|
 Venting Addict Group: Moderator Posts: 996 Joined: 26-August 07 From: Canada Member No.: 37 |
I couldn't find any news on this story (Canadian news doesn't always give the same coverage), but hope like crazy all the men are safe above ground once again.
|
|
|
|
 Oct 11 2007, 03:02 PM
Post
#4
|
|
|
Who's your Daddy? Group: Moderator Posts: 2,072 Joined: 13-August 07 From: Tampa Bay Area, Florida, USA Member No.: 11 |
I read that they got them all out, but am too lazy right now to look for a link.
-------------------- I know you think you understand what you thought I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant! |
|
|
|
|
Oct 11 2007, 07:01 PM
Post
#5
|
|
 Mods and Rockers Group: Moderator Posts: 1,151 Joined: 13-August 07 From: West of the Empire State Building Member No.: 16 |
All are free no one is killed (no not our no one)
QUOTE No one was hurt during the ordeal. "I'm happy now because we are out and we are alive," said Granny Makau, one of the freed miners and one of scores of women working at Elandstrand. "No one died so we are happy," she said. CNN |
|
|
|
|
Oct 11 2007, 10:39 PM
Post
#6
|
|
|
Venting Addict Group: Members Posts: 612 Joined: 21-September 07 From: 1AU from a G2V Star Member No.: 81 |
QUOTE (boopme @ Oct 11 2007, 08:01 PM)  (no not our no one) Glad that they were all pulled out ok. and thanks boopme for clarifying that, 'cause "I'm not dead!" and "I don't want to go on the cart! "  http://www.orangecow.org/pythonet/audio/gr...avs/notdead.wav This post has been edited by no one: Oct 11 2007, 10:52 PM -------------------- "Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts." "Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster" |
|
|
|
|
| Lo-Fi Version | Time is now: 7th October 2008 - 10:16 PM |
