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GOVERNMENT SAYS CONDITIONS REMAIN TOO DANGEROUS TO CONDUCT RECOVERY OPERATIONS FOR VICTIMS OF MINE EXPLOSION IN 2006.

Publication: SourceMex Economic News & Analysis on Mexico
Publication Date: 24-OCT-07 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
The Secretaria del Trabajo y Prevision Social (STPS) has ruled out a recovery operation to extract the bodies of 63 victims of an explosion at the Pasta de Conchos coal mine in Coahuila state in February 2006. In a report released in early October, the STPS said conditions remain too unstable and dangerous at the site of the explosion to allow recovery crews to enter. The report was published just days after a special congressional commission issued its own report criticizing mining company Industrial Minera Mexico (IMM), along with the federal and Coahuila state governments, for failing to take the steps that could have prevented the accident.

The explosion at the Pasta de Conchos mine, near the community of San Juan de Sabinas, sent temperatures above 600 degrees Celsius (1,100 Fahrenheit), enveloping the mine with lethal amounts of methane and carbon dioxide. The incident claimed 65 lives, with...

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