INQUIRER.net: China: Landslide buries 83 in Tibet gold mine area

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China: Landslide buries 83 in Tibet gold mine area Mar 30th 2013, 03:20 BEIJING — No signs of life have been detected at a gold mining site in a mountainous area of Tibet more than 24 hours after a massive landslide buried 83 workers, Chinese state media said Saturday. The state-run China Central Television said more than 2,000 rescuers have been dispatched to Lhasa's Maizhokunggar county to search for the buried. About 2 million cubic meters (2.6 million cubic yards) of mud, rock and debris swept through the area as the workers were resting and covered an area measuring around 4 square kilometers (1.5 square miles), CCTV said. The miners worked for a subsidiary of the China National Gold Group Corp., a state-owned enterprise and the country's... Keep on reading: China: Landslide buries 83 in Tibet gold mine area Media files: Tibet-gold-mine-701x600.jpg (image/jpeg)

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