Eleven rescued after two weeks underground following China gold mine explosion

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>Eleven workers trapped for two weeks by an explosion inside a Chinese gold mine have been brought safely to the surface&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>State broadcaster CCTV showed workers being hauled up one by one in baskets&comma; their eyes shielded to protect them after so many days in darkness&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>One worker was reported to have died from a head wound following the blast that deposited massive amounts of rubble in the shaft on January 10 while the mine was still under construction&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The fate of 10 others who were underground at the time is unknown&period; Authorities have detained mine managers for delaying reporting the accident&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The official China Daily said on its website that seven of the workers were able to walk to ambulances on their own&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Numerous ambulances were shown parked alongside engineering vehicles at the mine in Qixia&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2>Earlier&colon; Reaching trapped miners could take &&num;8220&semi;15 days&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p>It will take at least 15 more days to get through a massive amount of debris and reach miners already trapped for 11 days since an explosion in a gold mine in eastern China&comma; authorities said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The mine shaft is blocked 350 metres &lpar;1&comma;000ft&rpar; below the surface by 70 tons of debris that extends down another 100 metres &lpar;330ft&rpar;&comma; the Yantai city government said in a statement on its social media account&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Based on expert evaluations&comma; the extent of the blockage … is well out of expectation&comma;” the statement said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>One worker has died from head injuries in the explosion&comma; state media said earlier&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Of the remaining 21&comma; rescuers have established contact with 11 and the status of the other 10 is unknown&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The deceased worker had been in a coma&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Two others are said to be in poor health&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Rescuers have delivered food&comma; medicine and other supplies to the group of 11 as they work to remove debris and improve ventilation&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><&excl;--Ads1--><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The state media reports said exhaustion has set in among some of the workers since the January 10 explosion ripped through the mine that was under construction in Qixia&comma; a jurisdiction under Yantai in Shandong province&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Rescuers were attempting to clear cages and other debris blocking the main shaft while drilling other shafts for communication&comma; ventilation and possibly to lift workers to the surface&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Boring has reached depths of around 700 metres &lpar;about 2&comma;000ft&rpar;&comma; the reports said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mine managers have been detained for waiting more than 24 hours before reporting the accident&comma; the cause of which has not been announced&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Increased supervision has improved safety in China’s mining industry&comma; which used to average 5&comma;000 deaths per year&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Yet demand for coal and precious metals continues to prompt corner-cutting&comma; and two accidents in Chongqing last year killed 39 miners&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68e27675de26f">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; 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