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Mexico: Remembering the Pasta de Conchos Mine Disaster

Written bySilvia Viñas

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Posted 13 October 2010 21:44 GMT

Pepe Flores, from Vivir Mexico [es], says Mexicans watching the rescue of 33 miners in Chile are remembering the Pasta de Conchos mine disaster from February 19, 2006, when 65 miners were trapped underground.  In the case of Pasta de Conchos, no miners were rescued.

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