One can be forgiven for wondering why relatively little media attention is being paid to the fate of the 29 miners who are currently trapped in an exploded coal mine in New Zealand.
But it might be helpful to know that it was weeks before the 33 miners who were trapped in that exploded coal mine in Chile became a cause célèbre.
Yet I pray this does not mean that these New Zealand miners will have to suffer in death-defying isolation just as long before media attention compels the mobilization of technical expertise from around the world to join local efforts to rescue them.
Accordingly, I’m hereby doing my little part to draw attention to their plight.
More importantly, I pray that these New Zealand miners are as fortunate as the Chilean miners were in surviving the initial blast to make it into their emergency refuge bunker.
I am acutely aware, though, that such explosions end more often in tragedy – like that which befell the 29 miners who died in West Virginia in April earlier this year as well as the 38 who died in China just days later – than in the triumph that occasioned the internationally celebrated rescue of the Chilean miners.
Late reports are that there has been no contact with these miners since the explosion occurred on Friday morning….
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Coal mine tragedies in US and China
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* This commentary was published originally yesterday, November 21 at 9:45 am
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