Many hope they will get jobs at the new gold mine. Saidu Kamara supports his family by working in one of the small pit mines inside the Baomahun site.

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The boy's father had been working on the pit with a backhoe that afternoon, Carpenter said.

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He spent almost 27 years working at Haig Pit in Whitehaven where he finished off as an overman prior to its closure.

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In the early hours of 9 July 1912, a huge explosion ripped through Cadeby Main Colliery near Doncaster, killing 35 of the 37 miners working in that section of the pit.

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