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The negative picture surrounding the San Jos? mine has started to put on the table the memory of mining tragedies occurred in other countries, where just never could recover the bodies of the victims. While there are many stories of successful rescues, even after tens of days, the body has proven to withstand much air and water have new difficulties suggest the possibility that the mine ends sealed and turned into a shrine.
The possibility that the mine becomes Sanctuary ... in Mexico occurred in 2006

Monday August 16, 2010

Source: The Second Online

Lasted six days of rescue work before the company Grupo Mexico said "there was no chance of survival after the methane explosion."

The negative picture surrounding the San Jos? mine has started to put on the table the memory of mining tragedies occurred in other countries, where just never could recover the bodies of the victims. While there are many stories of successful rescues, even after tens of days, the body has proven to withstand much air and water have new difficulties suggest the possibility that the mine ends sealed and turned into a shrine.

In Mexico, in 2006, this was so. A methane gas explosion inside a coal mine in San Juan de Cabinas trapped 65 miners hard at work. Only two bodies were recovered, the other 63 are still under the rubble.

The episode is called "the mine disaster at Pasta de Conchos" and still remains in the retina of the Mexicans because relatives of the victims do not give up the idea of recovering the bodies of their loved ones.

With the support of a bishop, denounced the precarious security conditions at the scene and demanded, unsuccessfully, to rescue the miners. In fact two months ago took the place as a measure of pressure, but were evicted by police.
After the explosion in a horizontal gallery of 1.6 kilometers long, which according to the Union of Mineworkers occurred at 490 meters below ground, while the company says it was at 150 meters began intense rescue efforts.

At 4 days after the accident the company operating the mine, Grupo Mexico's largest mining company in that country, had access to part of the tunnel but no one was found, prompting the company to think force of the explosion had driven deeper. The next day the rescuers moved to the middle of the mine, 2.8 kilometers deep. Again, they found no one. At that, the company assumed that the miners were buried under the rubble.

On the sixth day of the collapse, the company confirmed, based on a scientific report that "there was no chance of survival after the methane explosion." Congress observed a minute of silence to honor the fallen miners and began an investigation into the safety of the mine. The work continued and on 23 June, more than 4 months after the accident, found the first corpse. On 1 January the following year, six months later, he rescued the body of a second mining.

"We hope this does not happen here"

The former president of Copper Workers' Union, Raimundo Espinoza, noted that "in this case were suspended and rescue workers decided to leave tucked under the hill. We hope this does not happen here. " He added that "we are awaiting the work of probing and once you make contact, to be seen how they will recover, under conditions to be."

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