Many years ago, responding to a teaser in The Village Voice, I got hold of a copy of the United Mine Workers Journal that featured an article about its members who work in 20" (Yep! Thats twenty inch) coal seams...pay differential, but all the same....
The story and photos were terrifying...still give me the willies when I think back on them.
The recent incident aside, mines like Copiapo seem like paradise by comparison.
