CHINESE RESCUE TEAM LOCATES 8 SURVIVORS FROM dEC. 25 MINE COLLAPSE

摘要

Rescuers using infrared cameras to peer into darkness at a wrecked mine in eastern China on Wednesday found eight surviving miners who were trapped for five days after a collapse so violent it registered as a seismic event. The disaster on Christmas Day at the gypsum mine in Shandong province killed at least one worker. Nine others remain missing.Gypsum is a soft sulfate mineral that is widely used in construction.