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Fire traps 20 miners in Canadian potash mine, but no one hurt

MINING.COM Staff Writer | September 25, 2012 | 5:44 pm Canada Europe Potash 

Twenty miners are trapped underground due to a fire at PotashCorp’s Rocanville mine in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan, about 230 kilometres east of Regina. The fire was reported at 1:56 a.m. while 29 workers were underground, according to an e-mailed statement from...

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