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my sympathies for the miners and families, but i have to ask, doesnt coal turn into diamonds??? My guess thats what we need it for.. besides the energy!!
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That takes a rather long time mrs. t...
When you find yourself arguing with an idiot, you might want to rethink who the idiot really is.
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Try getting a girl a piece of coal on a gold band for an engagement ring and tell her to be patient.
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we need diamonds?
we can make them now
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No, sorry, coal does not turn into diamonds, that's a totally different process.Originally posted by Mrs. Tuberski
my sympathies for the miners and families, but i have to ask, doesnt coal turn into diamonds??? My guess thats what we need it for.. besides the energy!!No, I did not steal that from somebody on Something Awful.Comment
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One thing is a cave-in, but if a river starts to pour water in the mine - 181 miners trapped
Hopes fading for Chinese miners
Miners' relatives outside the mining company in Xintai
Miners' families say they have been given little information
Rescuers are still working to reach 181 miners trapped since Friday down two flooded coal mines in China's Shandong Province but hopes are fading fast.
Torrential rain had caused a river to burst its banks, sending flood water cascading down an old shaft into the mine where the men were working.
Rescuers are desperately trying to pump the water out but the chances of finding anyone alive appear slim.
Chief rescuer Zhu Wenyu said he thought the miners had no hope of survival.
The main mine affected, where 172 miners are missing, was completely inundated and many of the missing appear to be stranded far below the surface.
Nine other miners are also trapped at a nearby pit.
These accidents are a reminder that Chinese coal mines are among the most dangerous in the world, the BBC's Michael Bristow reports from Beijing.
Desperate protest
The breach in the **** on the River Wen was finally closed on Sunday and pipes and high-speed pumps have been installed, state media report.
Rescuers outside the flooded Xintai coal mine on 18 August
Continuing rain has frustrated rescuers' efforts at the mine
Rescue teams
Shandong's Communist Party chief, Li Jianguo, called for "no efforts to be spared" during the rescue work, according to state radio.
Distraught relatives of the missing miners have been demonstrating outside the Huayuan Mining Company in Xintai City, 450km (280 miles) south of Beijing.
Yelling abuse at guards, they tried to push their way through barriers after being refused access to the main flooded mine, and demanded that journalists be allowed to investigate properly what had happened.
Ren Hua, whose husband is one of those trapped, told The Associated Press that she had been called on Friday and told there was no problem and that water was being pumped out of the mine.
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But when she arrived on Saturday with her 11-year-old son she found the pumping had not started.
"We want to know how much work has been done and whether they are drawing off the water," she added, weeping.
When the mines became flooded on Friday, amid flash floods brought on by rainfall of about 205mm, 584 miners managed to escape.With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
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