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Date Posted: 18:26:37 10/12/10 Tue
Author: LauraG
Subject: Chiliean coalminers
It's one of those times when I want to watch a miracle about to happen, but I'm afraid to open my eyes. To think that those men in Chile are about to come to the surface after so many days so far below the ground.
Mining has historically been so dangerous, disasters having such a sense of finality. To think that it is possible to save these workers is incredibly exciting. If this rescue is successful, it will be a momentous moment. Having come from coal-mining stock and lived in a coal mining town, i know there are people who are taking this moment very personally. Around the globe people are waiting in anticipation of the moment when these men can once again see the light of day and breathe fresh air.
I salute these men, as representatives, of who have gone down in the mines for centuries to provide the rest of us with cheap energy.
LauraG
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Re: Chiliean coalminers - "Down Underground" -- Brittany, 19:57:57 10/12/10 Tue
There is a song that automatically goes into my head when mine disasters happen ever since I heard this song. I tried to find it on YouTube, but it wasn't available (it isn't one of Gaelic Storm's most popular songs), but I did find it on Rhapsody. You can listen to it for free:
http://www.rhapsody.com/gaelic-storm/tracks.html
(and yes, that is a didgeridoo you hear)
Down Underground:
Say goodbye to the morning light,
Got my Jaffas and my flask of tea,
Sucking death with every breath,
Tryin' to feed my family,
No sanctuary for this yellow canary
Stuck in a black iron cage,
I'm blind as a mole in this bottomless hole,
I'm diggin' my own grave.
Chorus:
I'm goin' down, underground,
Down, underground.
Down, underground,
Down, down, down...
They say, walk away, and you'll get better pay,
I don't know what I should do,
Should I cross the line, like some friends of mine,
They were hungry too,
Those union joes in their spotless clothes,
Don't mean nothin' to me,
I"m sick and tired of stokin' the fires,
For them or this company.
Chorus
When the siren sounds,
And the sun goes down,
I finally get to wash my face,
The wheels don't stop,
They spin 'round the clock,
They send my son down to take my place,
Chorus:
(He's) goin' down, underground,
Down underground,
Down underground,
Down down down
From the CD pamphlet:
From Cornwall, England to Springhill, Nova Scotia, to Harlan County, USA, this is a new song about an old story. A hard working man is caught in the crossfire between the Company and the Union, when the only thing that really matters is keeping his family fed. We always wanted to write a mining song, and we finally did, together with Nashville's finest Scottish songwriter, Johnny Reid. Hard, honest work is a rare commodity these days, but the folks who do it have every right to be proud of it... and they deserve our thanks and support...
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Back to the current mining situation, I'm waiting for the first miners to come up! I was going to be watching and waiting, but when the first rescuer went down, I had a bit of a panic attack myself seeing that tube going into that little hole and so I'm going to wait for someone to tell me when the first miner comes up so I can see that and hopefully erase the first image from my mind. I guess I'm not cut out for that kind of thing.
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Re: Chiliean coalminers - "Down Underground" -- BC, 20:47:42 10/12/10 Tue
To me it's a miracle that they are still alive after having been trapped for so long a time!
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Miners rescue -- Debbie S., 21:27:55 10/12/10 Tue
They are actually copper and gold miners at the San Jose Mine in Chile. But all miners live lives of constant danger to bring to the surface a mineral, jewel, rock or ore which people need or want. I admire them for their hard work.
I too come from a coal, zinc and galena mining area of Southeast, Kansas. Mines are inactive now, but the stories of cave-ins, death from black lung, gas explosions and poisoning, etc. are still told and remembered as part of our community.
The fact that this is the longest anyone has survived underground and that they are being rescued is an amazing miracle and cause for celebration of life.
Miners are a rare, rugged and close-knit breed of men.
Debbie S.
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Big Brutus and mining -- Debbie S., 21:48:12 10/12/10 Tue
Speaking of mining, if any of you ever decide to visit the "Little Ozarks" of Southeast Kansas, you might want to check out Big Brutus, our beloved attraction and remnant of our coal mining heritage. Strip mining tore up the land but it was safer than the underground mines. Southeast Kansas had both kinds of mines.
Debbie S.
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Re: Big Brutus and mining -- Debbie S., 20:40:10 10/17/10 Sun
LOL, BC, yes, they are real people.
Big Brutus could only move about o.22 MPH! He weighed 11 million pounds when he had ALL his innards. He stands 16 stories tall, the boom is 150 ft. long. It was cool when you used to be able to climb up the boom, great view! But, for insurance reasons, they closed it off. Bummer! The bucket/dipper held 150 tons and could fill three railroad cars.
Big Brutus, while not the largest electric shovel ever built, is the largest electric shovel still in existence. I remember when I was a kid my parents took me out to see him at work before they shut him down for good. It was kinda scary but awesome. As night fell, all his lights came on and he kept working. He was like a huge, scary, metal giant working in the night.
Debbie S.
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Re: Big Brutus and mining -- BC, 04:18:57 10/18/10 Mon
11 million pounds?!!! ...
Yikes!!!
"Brutus" could "devour" my 20,000 pound school bus like a "midnight snack"! :)
- BC :)
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re: Brutus -- BC, 22:04:08 10/12/10 Tue
Wow! Wonder what kind of endorsement you have add to your CDL license in order to take that vehicle on the open road?! :) Those are "real" people standing at the base of that thing aren't they?!
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