The statement from the coal company said that all of the oxygen packs had been inspected daily by miners and every 90 days by a mining official.

"The March diamond production was already packed up and awaiting transport to Kinshasa," said one senior mining official here, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

South Africa plans to market the Krugerrand gold coin abroad again, a mining official said.

A month later, an Indonesian mining official said that there were 40 million ounces to be mined.

They were sent away by the mining officials.

He was promoted to the rank of a Oberbergmeister (senior mining official) and became a mine manager in the same year.

In 1775 he became Oberbergmeister (senior mining official) in the Tyrol town of Schwaz.

Citing the recent deaths of 14 miners in West Virginia, senators said Monday that federal mining officials had failed to enforce safety regulations adequately.

The mining cooperative official said that there were more than 300 families in the area and estimated that the population was at least 1,200.

His father was a Norwegian mining official, who raised every one of his 20 children in the sport, and skied himself until he was well past 70.