7 Russian coal miners die in accidents in Siberia

MOSCOW – Russian officials say that seven workers have died in two separate accidents at Siberian coal mines. The Investigative Committee, the nation’s top state investigative agency, said that in one accident Friday, a truck carrying miners to the Raspadskaya coal mine in the Kemerovo region in central Siberia veered off the road and fell […]

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Six dead in Gloria coal mine explosion in South Africa

Six people have been killed by a gas explosion in an abandoned coal mine in South Africa, the national broadcaster is reporting. About 20 others are still trapped at the Gloria coal mine in Middelburg, east of the capital, Pretoria. A police spokesman said some people had gone into the mine to steal copper wires […]

Posted at 9:51 AM on February 8, 2019 | Leave a comment | Filed Under: Mine Disasters | Tagged: , , , , , , | Continue reading →

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Mark Nowak is the author of Revenants, Shut Up Shut Down (New York Times  “Editor’s Choice),” Coal Mountain Elementary (which Howard Zinn called “a stunning educational tool”), and Social Poetics (forthcoming), all from Coffee House Press. He is a Guggenheim fellow (2010) and a Lannan Literary Fellow (2015). A native of Buffalo, Nowak directs the Worker Writers School, currently in its eighth year of collaboration with PEN America.

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