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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/third-explosion-rocks-toxic-mine.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Chairman of Pike River Coal Board John Dow said the third blast happened almost exactly a week after the first one (AP)" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/min-third-explosion-rocks-toxic-mine.jpg" alt="Chairman of Pike River Coal Board John Dow said the third blast happened almost exactly a week after the first one (AP)"/></a></p>
<p>A third blast has erupted inside the New Zealand mine where 29 workers were killed in an earlier explosion.</p>
<p>Pike River Coal chairman John Dow said the blast happened almost exactly a week to the minute after the first explosion that led to one of the country&#8217;s worst mining disasters.</p>
<p>Twenty-nine workers, including two Britons, were caught in last week&#8217;s explosion and officials said there was no way they could have survived a second blast on Wednesday.</p>
<p>High levels of potentially explosive methane gas blamed for all the explosions has kept recovery teams from entering the mine to recover the workers&#8217; bodies.</p>
<p>Pete Rodger, 40, from Perthshire, and Malcolm Campbell, 25, from St Andrews, Fife, were among the missing miners.</p>
<p>No-one was injured in the latest explosion at the Pike River Coal mine on the South Island.</p>
<p>Mr Dow said the third blast was smaller than the earlier two, and that no-one was near the mine entrance when it happened. He said it would not affect planning for an operation to enter the mine to recover the men&#8217;s bodies. Officials have said it could take weeks or months to complete the recovery operation.</p>
<p>&#8220;The environment continues to remain unstable,&#8221; Mr Dow said. &#8220;The plans we have in place will continue. We have expected this will always be a possibility.&#8221;</p>
<p>Workers are installing a jet-powered engine used to extinguish fires at the mine site. It will pump carbon dioxide, nitrogen gas and water vapour into the mine&#8217;s tunnels to expel oxygen that could fuel more explosions. Once that is done, workers wearing breathing apparatus could enter the mine.</p>
<p>New Zealand&#8217;s mining industry is small and generally considered safe. The tragedy deeply shocked the country and devastated families who &#8211; buoyed by the survival tale of Chile&#8217;s 33 buried miners &#8211; had clung to hope that their relatives could emerge alive.</p>
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