Six Mexican miners dead after 100 tonnes of coal collapse

Michael Allan McCrae | August 4, 2012 | 10:09 pm Energy Latin America Coal 

Six coal miner died after 100 tonnes of coal collapsed at a mine in northern Mexico, located in the State of Coahuila.

The accident occurred at 10 a.m. on Friday at the Mimosa Unit 7 Mine owned by Altos Hornos de Mexico, according to the Secretary of Public Security of the state, Jorge Luis Delgado Moran. 

The rest of the mine’s personnel, 285 workers, were evacuated without incident.

The company said the coal collapse was due to a pocket of methane gas that instantaneously released. The mine’s ventilation system prevented the gas from exploding.

The rescued miner,  Armando Robles Piña, was injured but he has been released from treatment.

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4 Comments

  • sylvain

    my sympathies to their famyly this HAPPEN TO OFTEN IN FORIEN COUTRY

  • Jorge Fernandez Lizardi

    Encomendamos a Dios a nuestros compañeros mineros y pedimos por sus familias y seres queridos; que viven de nuestro trabajo.

  • Nickabuto

    Very unfortunate

  • BEN

    My prayers go out to the family of these victims. May God have mercy on their souls.

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