3,000 workers trapped in S. Africa gold mine


	3,000 workers trapped in S. Africa gold mine

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10-3-2007 6:52 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/1ae4248a-c607-4713-a4c9-9ddece04d500/D5A88A92-F363-417A-9858-8626E71B1408/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071003/ap_on_re_af/south_africa_mine_disaster_6" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071003/ap_on_re_af/south_africa_mine_disaster_6" style="font-size: 11px;">news.yahoo.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071003/ap_on_re_af/south_africa_mine_disaster_6"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/news.yahoo.com/img/181F32CA-2EB3-4354-9D5D-FE1F9314D085" alt="Miners work underground at the Harmony Goldmine, near Carletonville, South Africa, in this Wednesday Oct. 27, 2004 file photo. A burst water pipe probably caused a gold-mine shaft to collapse Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2007, trapping some 3,000 workers in Harmony Gold's Elandsrand Mine near Johannesburg, South Africa's economic capital and gold-mining center, the workers' union said. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071003/ap_on_re_af/south_africa_mine_disaster_6"><P>
                        JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - About 3,000 miners were trapped underground Wednesday when a water pipe burst and probably caused a shaft to collapse in a South African gold mine, union officials said.                        
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