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In Singu township, about 40 miles north of Mandalay, 27 gold miners were killed in a cave-in, the independent Democratic Voice of Burma reported.
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David Rising, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2025
In Singu township, about 65 kilometers (40 miles) north of Mandalay, 27 gold miners were killed in a cave-in, the independent Democratic Voice of Burma reported.
—David Rising, Chicago Tribune, 2 Apr. 2025
In the late nineteen-eighties, workers began filling the honeycomb of underground tunnels beneath the town with a cement-like grout, to prevent cave-ins.
—Michael Luo, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2025
Enhanced Safety Mining is dangerous, with risks such as cave-ins, equipment failure and machinery accidents.
—Anthony Milewski, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025
Barabbas endures a life of survivor’s guilt and misery following his pardon, toiling away in underground mines, Andor-style, for 20 years before surviving a cave-in and becoming a gladiator.
—James Grebey, Vulture, 22 Nov. 2024
The mining activities were also in violation of the law because no environmental impact assessment had been done, and the tunnels were described as weak and on the brink of cave-in.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 May 2024
Today's Featured Photo Crews are at work in the Phoenix Hill neighborhood after a sewer cave-in left a massive hole on Campbell Street.
—Keisha Rowe, The Courier-Journal, 16 July 2024
Not long after, she’s informed that her father has been killed in a mine cave-in, prompting her return to her desert hometown with the symbolically less-than-subtle name of Creation.
—Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 June 2024
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David Rising, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2025
In Singu township, about 65 kilometers (40 miles) north of Mandalay, 27 gold miners were killed in a cave-in, the independent Democratic Voice of Burma reported.
—David Rising, Chicago Tribune, 2 Apr. 2025
In the late nineteen-eighties, workers began filling the honeycomb of underground tunnels beneath the town with a cement-like grout, to prevent cave-ins.
—Michael Luo, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2025
Enhanced Safety Mining is dangerous, with risks such as cave-ins, equipment failure and machinery accidents.
—Anthony Milewski, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025
Barabbas endures a life of survivor’s guilt and misery following his pardon, toiling away in underground mines, Andor-style, for 20 years before surviving a cave-in and becoming a gladiator.
—James Grebey, Vulture, 22 Nov. 2024
The mining activities were also in violation of the law because no environmental impact assessment had been done, and the tunnels were described as weak and on the brink of cave-in.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 May 2024
Today's Featured Photo Crews are at work in the Phoenix Hill neighborhood after a sewer cave-in left a massive hole on Campbell Street.
—Keisha Rowe, The Courier-Journal, 16 July 2024
Not long after, she’s informed that her father has been killed in a mine cave-in, prompting her return to her desert hometown with the symbolically less-than-subtle name of Creation.
—Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 June 2024
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“Cave-in.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cave-in. Accessed 11 Apr. 2025.
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