Water drilled from rock in a North American mine is among the oldest yet found on Earth, say scientists.
He was off to work in a gold mine north of Tynda, and his sister had given him a tub for the road.
The 40m (131ft) deep well at the Jebel Amir mine in North Darfur caved in on Monday.
Plans to operate an opencast mine in north Staffordshire show a "lack of respect" for miners buried in a 19th Century pit disaster, campaigners say.
The potassium compound is used in fertilisers and the UK's only current mine is at Boulby in North Yorkshire.
The UK's only current mine is at Boulby in North Yorkshire.
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There was outrage last August when police shot dead 34 striking miners at the Marikana platinum mine in South Africa's North West province.
Private equity backed 2Co wants to build a new coal plant above the Hatfield coal mine and pump the gas to North Sea oil fields where it can be used for enhanced oil recovery.
Thein Sein took office two years ago this month, and despite ushering in an era of reform, he has faced not only violence in Rakhine state, but an upsurge in fighting with ethnic Kachin rebels in the north and major protests at a northern copper mine where angry residents emboldened by promises of freedom of expression have come out to denounce land grabbing.
The Babao mine in the city of Baishan in the north-east of the country is run by the state-owned Tonghua Mining Group.
Andrei, who looked like a Russian George Clooney, was drinking a litre can of Baltica beer and heading north, beyond the town of Neryungri, to work in a mine.
South African President Jacob Zuma has cut short a trip to Mozambique in order to visit the mine, which lies about 100km (62 miles) north-west of Johannesburg.
They may have been fighting over the occupancy of union offices at the Anglo American Platinum's Siphumelele mine shaft in Rustenburg, 100km (60 miles) north-west of Johannesburg, Mr Ngubane said.
The growth in production next year will come from the Grasberg mine in Indonesia as well as brownfield expansion programs at Morenci in North America, Cerro Verde in South America, and Tenke Fungurume in Africa.
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The mine collapsed in the Jebel Amir area of the town of El Serief in north Darfur on Monday, an eyewitness said.
More than 60% of all coal mined in the UK is produced by the Doncaster-based company at collieries or surface mine sites principally located in the west and east Midlands, Yorkshire and the North East.
Then just ten years ago, 190 miles north of Yellowknife, a determined and then obscure Canadian geologist, Charles Fipke, found the rich Diavik mine, vaulting Canada from irrelevant to third-largest supplier of diamonds, after Africa (again) and Russia.
The North York Moors National Park Authority said it would carefully assess the potential economic benefits and the environmental impacts of the mine before reaching any decision.
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