After the mudslide, two miners _ one buried up to his head in mud _ were pulled free, and they made their way to a service shaft, Xinhua quoted Li, 22, and another miner, Gao Baolin, 43, as saying from their hospital beds.
12.
Mitke supervised the sinking of the Urquhart shaft in 1929 . Work proceeded simultaneously with the service shaft and development shafts in the Black Rock and Rio Grande ore-bodies, but was not completed at the time of a ministerial inspection in April 1930.
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The incident trapping the miners occurred in the service shaft when a 15 meter section of compressed air pipe burst and fell to the shaft bottom, in the process damaging steel shaft guides, and electrical lines which cut off power to the hoist on the service cage.
