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Gold Prospecting
Small Scale Gold Mining
Underground Mines - Victoria
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<blockquote data-quote="user 4386" data-source="post: 288684" data-attributes="member: 4386"><p>People totally underestimate gas - which is NOT confined to coal mines but common in our old gold mines.</p><p></p><p>ELAND</p><p></p><p>The bodies of 76 illegal miners were found in the shafts of a disused gold mine over the past week. The Eland shaft, owned by Harmony Gold, has been out of use for years - closed down for being too dangerous and unprofitable. Some of the miners had died in a fire that broke out on 18 May. Others had suffocated because of dangerous gasses seeping out of the rocks underground, authorities said. </p><p></p><p>LANGLAAGTE</p><p></p><p><img src="https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/4386/1478501027_trapped.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>A mate got the contract to pull bodies of drowned miners out of the tanzanite mines - he found 42. Someone I kniow had a bunch of many students drown in Tasmania (a cave - usually less dangerous but same principle). Deaths occur even in Victorian tunnels (eg two in an adit at Eildon) - a mate nearly suffocated in central Victoria three years back and may have trouble working again, another mate suffocated at the bottom of a shallow shaft in Laverton WA......</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="user 4386, post: 288684, member: 4386"] People totally underestimate gas - which is NOT confined to coal mines but common in our old gold mines. ELAND The bodies of 76 illegal miners were found in the shafts of a disused gold mine over the past week. The Eland shaft, owned by Harmony Gold, has been out of use for years - closed down for being too dangerous and unprofitable. Some of the miners had died in a fire that broke out on 18 May. Others had suffocated because of dangerous gasses seeping out of the rocks underground, authorities said. LANGLAAGTE [img]https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/4386/1478501027_trapped.jpg[/img] A mate got the contract to pull bodies of drowned miners out of the tanzanite mines - he found 42. Someone I kniow had a bunch of many students drown in Tasmania (a cave - usually less dangerous but same principle). Deaths occur even in Victorian tunnels (eg two in an adit at Eildon) - a mate nearly suffocated in central Victoria three years back and may have trouble working again, another mate suffocated at the bottom of a shallow shaft in Laverton WA...... [/QUOTE]
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