The life of a miner is a dangerous occupation. From the moment he sets foot in the cage to descend
to his work, he is in constant danger of a violent death, or of injury that will render life a burden to him.

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• We are sad to report that recently some of our website content (labelled images and informative text) was copied from a few of our website pages and displayed within parts of another website, the authors of which represented our material as having been originally resourced by themselves.

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• Although every effort is made to ensure accuracy on the web pages, the Webmasters cannot take responsibility for errors of fact since some articles and some views expressed in the pages are from other parties and not necessarily those of the author. May I take this opportunity to thank the many people, from all over the world, who have kindly sent me items and photographs to enrich the content of these pages.
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