Mine & tunnel emergencies: Part 1--introduction to rescue concepts & issues; Underground rescue operations are unlike any other that will confront firefighters and rescuers.
As we have seen abundantly in mine disasters in West Virginia and Kentucky, as well as a two-week mine rescue in Australia and several large life-loss mine disasters in China, underground emergencies are among the most complex and dangerous situations that rescuers will encounter. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ...

Shafted: how the Bush administration reversed decades of progress on mine safety.
On the afternoon of September 23, 2001, thirty-two miners were repairing drilling machines and hoisting tunnel supports into place in the No. 5 mine of Jim Walter Resources Inc., in Brookwood, Alabama. The No. 5 is North America's deepest coal mine, tracking the six-foot-high Blue Creek seam almost half...

169 now dead in Chinaa[euro][TM]s coal mine tragedy.
Byline: ALEXA OLESEN BEIJING (AP) a" The death toll from a coal mine explosion in northern China reached 169 yesterday, confirming it as one of the countryas worst mining disasters in decades, as the government reported yet another catastrophe a" a flooded coal mine that left 42...

Coal India raises relief package for miners.
Byline: Sanjay Dutta NEW DELHI: Coal India Ltd has raised the compensation package for its miners and their families in case of death caused in mine mishaps. The company will pay Rs 5 lakh more than the existing package to the kin of an accident...

Mining casts a dark shadow and the new Hummer rolls into town.
Several tragic accidents recently brought to light the dangers of mining. What are the environmental impacts of mining, including their long-term effects on public and worker health?--Ed Kelley, Albuquerque, NM Mining is an inherently nasty practice when looked at from environmental and health standpoints. For starters, large-scale...

Gold leaves toxic trail in Europe's rivers.
Several major rivers in Europe suffered the fallout of a gigantic mining accident in January 2000 that killed 650 tons of fish in a matter of weeks, deprived 2.5 million Hungarians of their water supplies, and left 15,000 fishermen jobless. The disaster has been described as Europe's...

Unfinished business: pragmatics and the paradox of Arnold Shepperson.
Abstract The unpublished work of Peirceian philosopher and cultural studies theorist Arnold Shepperson is the subject of this article. A background to the life and work of Shepperson is offered to provide a template against which the articles published in this theme issue of Critical Arts, which...

How can we make miners' lives safer?
Byline: Rupa Jha (##include msid=47949085,type=11 ##) Life is good till it exists. A coal-miner's life is like that of an Armyman's, live while it lasts. Coal mines are increasingly becoming death traps where several people have succumbed to life. In India there are at least...

Accidents, disease kill 74 in 4 Asian countries.
River, road, mining accidents and a rare disease killed over the weekend 74 people in Asia, 21 of them in the impoverished states of Bangladesh and Pakistan and the rest from India and China, reports from international wire news agencies said. From Dhaka, Reuters reported that 11...

China mine blast kills 56, nearly 100 missing.
BEIJING (AFP) An underground gas explosion ripped through a mine in central China killing at least 56 workers and leaving nearly 100 missing in one of the worst mining disasters in recent memory, officials said Thursday. The shafts of the Daping coal mine near Xinmi in Henan...