China tests home-grown coal refuge chamber at Changcun mine

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Lu’an Group, a large Shanxi-based coal producer, completed what was according to state newsletter, People’s Daily Online, China’s first manned test of an underground refuge chamber on April 10. A team of 80 miners, rescue workers and researchers stayed in a permanent refuge chamber in the company’s Changcun coal mine for 48 hours.

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