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33 miners were trapped in the San Jose gold mine and so far 21 have been rescued.
It is unknown how many actual gold mines there are or where. There where many gold mines during the gold rush and after.
Although their number was small, some women mined for gold during the Gold Rush, whether in California or Australia. Some came with their husbands and worked side by side with them in the mines. Many Irish women who came to America to escape the Potato Famine, headed west to seek their fortune in the mines.
Miners are men who go into underground tunnels and remove various ores. Miners lives in the 19 th and early 20th century were not pleasant especially if they were coal miners. Conditions, safety and pay were abominable. American coal companies in particular were very bad employers, in many cases forcing miners to buy all their supplie at company stores ( Listen to the song "16 tons" ) After WW2 conditions became better, particularly in copper and gold mines in Africa and gypsum mines everywhere. Safety became a big concern and pay was far better . My dad was a hard rock miner for 20 years.
The reason is that many mines have sunk under water and there is gold in mines so that is why .
i can tell you if you would be a little more specific on when and where they died.
There are no current gold mines in Antarctica. The continent is covered with ice sheet that make it uneconomic to mine for gold.
All 33 have now been rescued.
31 people were trapped in the mine. they were there for 69 days.
There are 33 alive. They're rescuing the miners now (October 13 am) so they should all be out soon.
The chilean miners have been stuck undergorund for 69 days
Zama Zamas are illegal gold and diamond miners in South Africa. They occupy both operating and disused mines. They are mostly foreigners from Zimbabwe and Mozambique. Zama Zamas can spend many weeks down in the mines at a time and many die from disease or carbon dioxide poisioning. Zama means "trying your luck".