Mine blast: Rescuers wait for gas all-clear
By NZ Herald staff 5:30 AM Saturday Nov 20, 2010 Share Email Print Expand Shrink Rescuers were early today waiting for the all-clear on gas build-up before going into a West Coast coal mine to find 27 missing miners. Nothing had been heard from the men since an explosion deep underground yesterday afternoon. Worried families of the men gathered at the entrance to the Pike River Coal company’s mine, 46km east of Greymouth. The alarm was raised when mine electrician Russell Smith, 50, investigated a power cut at 3.50pm. He discovered loader driver Daniel Rockhouse, 24, who had been blown off his machine. The two men, who were working some distance from the other mine staff, escaped through a…
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