Sentence examples for abandoned shaft from inspiring English sources

All four boys died because they did not understand how easily carbon monoxide and methane could turn an abandoned shaft into a deadly gas chamber.

An underground fire in an abandoned shaft has apparently killed 36 people who were illegally mining, the Harmony Gold Mining Company said Monday.

The men died when the seam they were working flooded after they had cut into an abandoned shaft, releasing three million gallons of trapped water.

Some streams in the woods run red from the acid leaking from abandoned shafts.

The best solution, he said, is to pump cement into the abandoned shafts, an operation that would cost at least $300m and take more than a year.

This is because when the mining companies left, they shut off the pumps that kept abandoned shafts from filling with groundwater.

Knowing that there were abandoned shafts and mines under that land - vestiges of 18th- and 19th-century cobalt mining efforts - he hedged is bets.

The flood that trapped the men was a reminder that after a century of mining, the state is honeycombed with abandoned shafts.

But two years after the mine's owners abandoned it because it was unprofitable, sewage runs in the streets of the old mining village, tailings impoundments cover nearby towns in dust, and illegal miners rule the abandoned shafts.

Alongside the large enterprises, there is another mining industry: an informal one, squeezing profits from some of the old abandoned shafts and the slag heaps dug out from the mines.

Manson also found an abandoned mine shaft in the desert north of Los Angeles which he told his brainwashed followers was the shaft to Revelation 9. From there, Manson taught his followers that the White Album prophesized that the black race would rise up and murder the white race but that Manson and his Family would be saved.