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Magawa the rat, who was awarded a gold medal for his heroism, is retiring from his job detecting landmines. In a five-year career, the rodent sniffed out 71 landmines and dozens more unexploded ...

Rat-hole mining is a primitive method of extracting coal deposits through narrow and horizontal passages. It refers to the narrow pits dug into the ground, typically just large enough for one ...

"Rat-hole mining" is a primitive, hazardous and controversial method used in India mostly to remove coal deposits through narrow passages. The name comes from its resemblance to rats burrowing ...

In 2018, 15 men involved in rat-hole mining in Meghalaya were killed after they became trapped for days due to flooding. After rescue work stretching on for around two months, …

New rescue plan: Rat-hole mining. As of Monday, the rescuers had decided to try two new strategies in tandem: One will be an attempt to drill vertically into the tunnel from the top of the hill ...

'No one will remember us': India's hero 'rat hole miners' who helped rescue 41 men from the Himalayan tunnel. By Aishwarya Iyer, CNN. 5 minute read. Updated …

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Rat mining or rat-hole mining is the process of narrow tunnel excavation by manually digging through. The technique earns its name from its resemblance to rats burrowing holes into the ground. The practice was commonly used in the northeastern state of Meghalaya where the holes were typically just big enough for the workers to descend …

How India's 'rat-hole' miners freed 41 tunnel workers. 29 November 2023. Reuters. A dozen so-called 'rat-hole' miners cleared the last stretch of debris to reach the trapped workers. By Soutik ...

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"Rat mining" is a primitive, hazardous and controversial method used in India mostly to remove coal deposits through narrow passages. The name comes from its resemblance to rats burrowing through ...

New Delhi — A group of 41 men were rescued Tuesday from a partially collapsed Himalayan highway tunnel in northern India's Uttarakhand state after they were trapped for 17 days, India's transportation minister announced. The breakthrough, after a series of failed attempts, was achieved by a team of "rat miners" digging manually …

Rat mining or rat-hole mining is the process of narrow tunnel excavation by manually digging through. The technique earns its name from its resemblance to rats burrowing holes into the ground.

'No one will remember us': India's hero 'rat hole miners' who helped rescue 41 men from the Himalayan tunnel. By Aishwarya Iyer, CNN. Posted: December 6, 2023 …

by Sahana Ghosh on 29 November 2018. India's National Green Tribunal in 2014 banned rat hole mining of coal and its transportation over concerns for the environment and labour conditions in the tribal-majority state of …

The rat-hole miners, experts in a traditional method of coal mining still used widely in India, were called in only on Monday after more than two weeks of failed attempts to reach the stranded ...

"Rat hole mining may be illegal," Lt General Syed Ata Hasnain, a retired official from India's National Disaster Management Authority told reporters shortly after the rescue. "But a rat ...

By Arshad R. Zargar. Updated on: November 29, 2023 / 9:05 AM EST / CBS News. New Delhi — A group of 41 men were rescued Tuesday from a partially collapsed …

Rat-hole mining had first been outlawed in the 1970s, when the Indian government nationalised coal mines and gave the government-run mining company Coal India a monopoly over coal excavation.

At least 15 miners were killed in one such "rat hole" mine in Meghalaya after being trapped for more than a month until January 2019 – one of the many tragedies in the state where rights ...

SILKYARA, India (Reuters) -When heavy machinery broke down trying to break through the debris trapping 41 workers in a tunnel in the Indian Himalayas, …

First published on Tue 28 Nov 2023 04.23 EST. All 41 Indian labourers have been rescued after a gruelling 17 days trapped in a collapsed tunnel in the Himalayan mountains. The dramatic …

Besides, NDRF and SDRF teams were seen entering with their gear to evacuate the 41 trapped workers at the collapse site," said an India Today report. The term "rat-mining" refers to a ...

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"Rat-hole mining" is a primitive, hazardous and controversial method used in India mostly to remove coal deposits through narrow passages. The name comes from …

Fifteen "rat-hole" miners were trapped more than 100 metres underground in an Indian cave when the mine shaft they were working in flooded but the incident received barely any attention. Read more

On Monday, Indian authorities turned to "rat miners" to drill through the rocks and gravel by hand from inside the evacuation pipe pushed through the debris after machinery failed.

CNN —. Magawa, the "hero rat" whose work sniffing out landmines in Cambodia won him a medal for life-saving bravery, has died at the age of 8. The African giant pouched rat found more than ...

New rescue plan: Rat-hole mining. ... which is still common in coal mining in India. Senior local official Abhishek Ruhela told the AFP news agency Monday, that after the broken drilling machinery is cleared from the pipe, "Indian Army engineering battalion personnel, along with other rescue officers, are preparing to do rat-hole mining." ...