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  • Specialist divers went into the Gleision Colliery near Cilybebyll, Pontardawe in the Swansea Valley, where the men have been trapped since yesterday morning, but had to abandon their efforts after about 30 metres.

    Divers in Welsh mine rescue forced to turn back 2011

  • Fabricated in a luminescent finish of white marble and concrete aggregate, this head of a young girl with her eyes closed rises more than 60 feet from the site of the former Sutton Manor Colliery near Liverpool, England, shimmering above the skyline.

    The Man With a Thousand Faces Joel Henning 2011

  • The owners of nearby Aberpergwm Colliery ran up a bill of more than £70,000.

    Mining deaths at Gleision colliery prompt call for more rescue funding 2011

  • Next to it was a similarly sized communique of the Yorkshire Winding Enginemen Association's decision to chase up a wages claim with the help of the Sheffield Colliery Winders' Federation.

    Girl from Ipanema was not the only bum note struck at a Rio marina | Scott Murray 2011

  • Rhidian Davies, managing director of Aberpergwm Colliery, said there was never any doubt that it would provide men to help with the rescue and the resources to fund it, but it was a scandal that it had to do so.

    Gleision colliery rescue 'seriously jeopardised' by lack of resources 2011

  • Rescue workers at Gleision Colliery: in his letter to Iain Duncan Smith, Peter Hain says the operation could have been jeopardised by disputes over how to cover its costs.

    Mining deaths at Gleision colliery prompt call for more rescue funding 2011

  • Riversdale/European Pressphoto Agency Riversdale Mining's Zululand Anthracite Colliery coal mine in South Africa The offer for Riversdale has dragged on since December, with a slow take-up by minority shareholders prompting Rio to extend the deadline four times previously and raise the price once from the original A$16 a share.

    Rio Tinto Hits Riversdale Goal Robb M. Stewart 2011

  • The Guardian, is built as a memorial to the 45 men and boys killed in the Six Bells Colliery mining accident near Abertillery, Blaenau Gwent, 50 years ago.

    Cardiff today - Gypsy history and Cardiff Social Media Surgery 2010

  • "Xstrata has pre-empted the police investigation by drawing conclusions that the incident is in some way connected to the industrial negotiations between the union and management at Tahmoor Colliery," CFMEU Mining and Energy Union Vice President

    Australian Police Investigate Incident at Xstrata Mine 2010

  • Addressing a rally at Hwange Colliery Stadium, Mugabe said companies that resisted the order to reduce prices risked being taken over by the government "because they were serving the interests of people who were keen to effect regime change in the country," the Herald said.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2008

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