New Hope for Six US Miners
August 16, 2007
HOPES were raised that six missing US miners could be found alive after some noise was detected by two devices monitoring vibrations.
But officials said the noises could have been caused by a rock breaking underground or an animal. The miners were trapped 10 days ago after a cave-in at the the Crandall Canyon Mine in Utah.
Richard Stickler, chief of the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration, said: “We saw some indication of noise for a period of about five minutes that we had not seen before.”
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