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		</div><p>Eleven workers trapped for two weeks by an explosion inside a Chinese gold mine have been brought safely to the surface.</p>
<p>State broadcaster CCTV showed workers being hauled up one by one in baskets, their eyes shielded to protect them after so many days in darkness.</p>
<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.</p>
<p>The fate of 10 others who were underground at the time is unknown. Authorities have detained mine managers for delaying reporting the accident.</p>
<p>The official China Daily said on its website that seven of the workers were able to walk to ambulances on their own.</p>
<p>Numerous ambulances were shown parked alongside engineering vehicles at the mine in Qixia.</p>
<h2>Earlier: Reaching trapped miners could take &#8220;15 days&#8221;</h2>
<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, authorities said.</p>
<p>The mine shaft is blocked 350 metres (1,000ft) below the surface by 70 tons of debris that extends down another 100 metres (330ft), the Yantai city government said in a statement on its social media account.</p>
<p>“Based on expert evaluations, the extent of the blockage … is well out of expectation,” the statement said.</p>
<p>One worker has died from head injuries in the explosion, state media said earlier.</p>
<p>Of the remaining 21, rescuers have established contact with 11 and the status of the other 10 is unknown.</p>
<p>The deceased worker had been in a coma.</p>
<p>Two others are said to be in poor health.</p>
<p>Rescuers have delivered food, medicine and other supplies to the group of 11 as they work to remove debris and improve ventilation.</p>
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<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, a jurisdiction under Yantai in Shandong province.</p>
<p>Rescuers were attempting to clear cages and other debris blocking the main shaft while drilling other shafts for communication, ventilation and possibly to lift workers to the surface.</p>
<p>Boring has reached depths of around 700 metres (about 2,000ft), the reports said.</p>
<p>Mine managers have been detained for waiting more than 24 hours before reporting the accident, the cause of which has not been announced.</p>
<p>Increased supervision has improved safety in China’s mining industry, which used to average 5,000 deaths per year.</p>
<p>Yet demand for coal and precious metals continues to prompt corner-cutting, and two accidents in Chongqing last year killed 39 miners.</p>
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