AAP General News (Australia)
04-26-2006
Tas: Front-end loader to go into mine
A remote-controlled front-end loader will be sent into a northern Tasmanian mine ..
to rescue three miners trapped 925 metres underground.
Beaconsfield Gold Mine manager MATTHEW GILL says the front-end loader will be fitted
with a camera and used to excavate rocks that fell at 9.30 (AEST) last night.
TODD RUSSELL .. and two other miners have been trapped in the mine since the rock fall.
Mr GILL says 17 miners were underground at the time .. but 14 managed to escape unharmed.
He says it's unknown whether the three men survived the rock fall.
AAP RTV rgr/wf/bart
KEYWORD: MINE (BEACONSFIELD)
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