Mike Schusslerof T-Sec, a stockbroker, reckons that about 600m rand a day of export revenueswere lost when the mines stopped work.

T-Sec公司的股票经纪人迈克· 斯库斯勒估算自矿场停产以来，出口额每天至少损失六亿兰特。

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It might sound cynical to ask how much compensation should be paid for each life lost in the mines, since we can never measure a life in monetary terms.

要求对矿井事故中丧生的人进行经济赔偿听起来可能有点儿市侩，因为生命是无法用金钱衡量的。

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Some members of his ragtag crew, refugees living in a tent camp, have already lost limbs to the mines.

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Tyrone O'Sullivan, chairman of Tower Colliery, said the possibility of new mines opening was an opportunity to prevent the skills of Wales' miners from being lost.

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