Mine collapse in China traps 18 workers; 11 rescued

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese rescuers pulled 11 workers to safety and located another 18 who were trapped after a mine collapsed in the eastern province of Shandong, state media said Saturday.

The official Xinhua News Agency said all 29 workers were accounted for, although the 18 remained trapped at two sites and could not be immediately rescued.

The Pingyi county government said that the gypsum mine, owned by Yurong Commercial and Trade Ltd. Co., caved in on Friday and left 19 workers missing in initial tallies. The other 10 were rescued on Friday.

Gypsum is a soft sulfate mineral that is widely used in construction.

Xinhua said rescuers lifted one miner, whose leg was struck under a boulder, from the shaft on Saturday morning.

The mine collapse came just days after a landslide from a man-made pileup of construction waste in the southern city of Shenzhen killed one person and left another 75 missing and presumed dead.

Authorities on Friday ruled that the landslide was not a geological disaster but a work safety incident, adding to China's list of major man-made disasters in recent years.

China's mines have long been the world's deadliest, but safety improvements have reduced deaths in recent years.

Last year, 931 people were killed in mine accidents throughout China, drastically down from the year 2002, when nearly 7,000 miners were killed.

-- (c) Associated Press 2015-12-26

Things aren't going too well either for those CCP Chinese miners still alive.

CCP Boyz in Beijing had always kept employees on the payroll even when demand was off or in a serious decline. Social stability being the central factor. So unemployment had until recently been artificially low.

Workers however no longer can pretend to work while the CCP pretends to pay them.

In biggest layoff in China, coal company axes 100,000 workers

BEIJING: A coal company announced the biggest layoff seen in China in recent years as it is set to relieve 100,000 workers accounting for 40% of its labour force.

Heilongjiang Longmay Mining Holding Group Co Ltd. said it was taking action to reduce recurring losses, and will bring about the labour cut in the next three months. It has 240,000 workers on the rolls at present.

Company chairman Wang Zhikui said the job cut was a measure adopted to "stop bleeding" the company. It also plans to sell its non-coal related businesses to help pay off its debts, Wang said.

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Edited December 26, 201510 yr by Publicus