Australia
Dec 2007	All 27 miners trapped after a gold mine shaft collapsed near the central Victorian city of Ballarat have been rescued. A crane was used to bring the men out through a ventilation shaft. There were no injuries. More
May 2006	Two miners rescued after being trapped for 14 days following a collapse at the Beaconsfield mine in Tasmania. One miner was killed. More
Jan 2006	Three miners who were feared trapped in the burning Avebury nickel mine owned by Allegiance Mining in Tasmania, Australia were rescued. More

Canada
Jan 2006	Seventy-two Canadian miners rescued after 24 hours trapped in a Saskatchewan potash mine where a fire occurred blocking their escape. More

China
Jun 2009	All seven trapped workers in the Yongjin Gold Mine in Tianzhu County of Qiandongnan Autonomous Prefecture of Miao and Dong Nationalities were saved after a 20-hour rescue effort. More
Nov 2008	Four miners were rescued after being trapped for about 80 hours after a roof collapsed at the Hantan Tungsten Mine in east China's Jiangxi Province. More
	Rescuers pulled 32 of the 34 trapped miners out of the flooded Gaomendong Coal Mine in central China's Henan Province, almost 23 hours after the accident occurred. More
Aug 2008	Two miners who had been trapped underground for over 50 hours following an iron ore mine cave-in in east China's Anhui province were brought out safely.  Both of them were not seriously injured. More
	Eight of the nine workers trapped for a week in a collapsed coal mine in Shaanxi province in northwest China have come out alive.  The eight miners appeared August 5th at the entrance to the mine that collapsed on July 31st but it wasn't immediately known how they managed to escape or survive for a week, the report said.  They were hospitalized and listed in stable condition. More
Dec 2007	Two were trapped for more than 30 hours before they were rescued following a coal mine flood in north China's coal-rich Shanxi Province. 43 others managed to escape. More
	Rescuers found Sheng Shouyan, 48, about 5 am on December 17th at Qunfa Coal Mine in Shangrao County, Jiangxi Province some 113 hours after water flooded the mine and trapped four workers on Dec. 12. More
	Six miners were rescued after being trapped for 110 hours after a cave-in at the Yangchong Iron Mine in Fanchang County, of Wuhu City, Anhui Province.  Search for another miner continued. More
	11 miners trapped for 129 hours in an iron pit roof collapse in north China's Hebei Province were rescued. No injuries were reported. More
Oct 2007	A miner was rescued on October 31 from a flooded coal mine in Jiangxi Province after being trapped inside for 83 hours. The 45-year-old miner, Huang Guigen, was not in a critical condition, and he could walk and speak in a stong voice. More
Aug 2007	Meng Xianchen and his brother Meng Xianyou were trapped for 5 days after a cave-in accident in an illegal private mine at the Jinjitai village in Fangshan district of southwestern Beijing. Four days after rescue work ended, the miners managed to break through the debris and climb out of the shaft . More
	The 14 miners who were trapped for more than a day in a flooded colliery in east China's Jiangxi Province were rescued.  Each of the workers, weak and blindfolded, was carried by two rescuers up to the ground. Some of them were still able to speak despite being starved for more than 30 hours. More
Jul 2007	The Zhijian mine in China's central Henan province flooded on Sunday morning with 102 workers underground.  Thirty-three miners escaped but the other 69 were trapped in a section of 600 metres of tunnels that were submerged.  All 69 miners were pulled from the mine 3 days later on August 1st. More
	Sixteen people trapped for hours in a Chinese coal mine by poisonous gas escaped unhurt yesterday, but four of their colleagues remain underground, unable to get to the surface. More
Nov 2006	All the 16 coal miners who were trapped after a Wednesday landslide in northwest China's Gansu Province at the Deshun Coal Mine were rescued after 14 hours late Wednesday night. More
Oct 2006	Eight Chinese coal miners who were trapped when a tunnel collapsed were rescued early October 12 after 40 hours underground. The miners were trapped October 10 when the ceiling collapsed in the Xieqiao Coal Mine in Fuyang, a city in the eastern province of Anhui. They were weak but in good condition following their rescue. One rescued miner said he ate nothing while he was trapped and drank water leaking from the tunnel ceiling. More
Jun 2006	The remaining three of a group of five miners trapped in a cave-in at a Heilongjiang Province coal mine were rescued after being trapped for more than 60 hours. The accident occurred at the Xing'an Coal Mine in the mining town of Hegang. Four others died. More
May 2006	Rescuers succeeded in pulling an iron miner whose legs had been pinned by rocks from a collapsed shaft in Anhui Province. A total of five miners, including a female, out of the eight trapped had been pulled out alive. More
	Eight miners were trapped following a collapse at the Dalongshan Iron Mine in Anhui Province. One miner was brought to the surface 60 hours after the accident occurred. Four more, including a woman were pulled out about 10 hours later. More than 1,000 workers participated in the rescue. More
Apr 2006	Five miners who were trapped in the flooded Yalong coal mine in southwest China's Guizhou province were rescued. More
Mar 2006	One miner was rescued about 26 hours after the fatal blast at Rongsheng Colliery in China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Eighteen miners died in the explosion. More
Feb 2006	Seven Chinese miners are rescued four days after a cave-in at the Aiyou coal mine in China's northern Liaoning province. More
Nov 2005	Six people trapped in a coal mine were rescued about seven hours after the mine caved in at Lengshuijiang, a city in central China's Hunan Province. More
	One miner was rescued after being trapped for 260 hours (11 days) following a cave-in at a gypsum mine in China's Hebei Province. The rescued miner, Yuan Shenglin, said he drank his urine four or five times. More
Sep 2005	Three miners were killed and two others rescued in a colliery collapse that happened in east China's Anhui Province at the Daihe Coal Mine of Huaibei Coal Mining Group. More
	Three of the 13 miners trapped in a flooded Dahao coal mine in southwest China's Guizhou Province were rescued. More
Jul 2005	Three miners trapped in a flooded colliery in Henan Province, central China were rescued after nearly 60 hours from the Xigou colliery. More
Apr 2005	10 coal miners were successfully rescued after being trapped underground for 36 hours following a colliery gas blast in the Shangyukou Colliery in China's Shaanxi Province. More
	Two miners who had been trapped for 15 days in a collapsed mine in Leping, Jiangxi Province were rescued. More
Mar 2005	Six miners were rescued 58 hours after they were trapped underground by a mudflow that occurred in the Yaozishan coal mine in Ningxiang county in Hunan Province. More
Nov 2004	Four workers were pulled out alive from the Chenjiashan coal mine in Tongchuan city, Shaanxi Province. A total of 166 miners were killed in the explosion. More
Jun 2004	After some 20 hours of emergency rescue efforts, three miners who were buried in a mine collapse in the Shihu Gold Mine, located in Lingshou County Hebei Province were rescued. More
Apr 2004	12 miners were rescued after being trapped for 5 days when a working face of Zhengzhou Coal Industrial Corporation's Chaohua coal mine in China's Henan Province was suddenly flooded. More
Aug 2002	One man was pulled out alive from a mine shaft, five days after a fire trapped him and 18 other workers underground in a pit in the northern Shanxi province. There were no other survivors. More
Jul 2002	Nine miners rescued after eight days trapped in a coal mine in a northwestern province of China. They survived on tree bark, muddy water. More
Jul 1996	Three miners survive eight days in a flooded mine in southern China.
Jan 1983	Two Chinese miners rescued after 23 days trapped in a coal mine in northeast China.

India
Feb 2001	A miner trapped in a flooded state-run coal mine near the town of Dhanbad in eastern India for nearly six days was brought out alive. More
Nov 1989	Sixty-six miners rescued three days after being trapped by an underground flood in a coal pit in eastern India.

Russia/Ukraine
June 2009	A miner trapped for three days under rubble at the Yenakieve coal mine owned by the Ordzhonikidzevuhillia state enterprise in the Donetsk region was rescued. More
April 2009	Two miners, trapped for two days following a roof collapse at the Poltavska coalmine in Yenakieve, Donetsk region, were rescued. More
May 2005	5 miners were safely rescued From Siberian Mine after 6 hours following a cave-in. More
Oct 2003	All 46 miners trapped in a mine inundated by floodwaters in southern Russia were safely rescued. Contact was established with the miners some 36 hours after floodwaters from an underground lake poured into the Zapadnaya-Kapitalnaya shaft. More
Jun 2003	Rescuers pulled four miners out alive from a Russian mine in which a gas explosion killed 11. The four rescued miners had been trapped underground for 40 hours, following the blast at the Ziminka mine in the Siberian region of Kemerovo. More

South Africa
Oct 2007	There were no casualties when a pressurized air pipe snapped at the mine near Johannesburg and tumbled down a shaft on October 3rd, causing extensive damage and cutting off electricity to an elevator and stranding 3,200 miners more than a mile underground.  The miners, trapped for more than 24 hours, were brought to the surface the next day. More
Jun 2006	A miner who was trapped almost 3km underground in Gold Fields' Kloof mine near Westonaria on the West Rand was rescued. Another miner was killed when rocks fell on him during an earth tremor measuring 3.1 on the Richter scale. More
Jan 2000	Nine gold miners survive for four days trapped in a gold mine at the African Rainbow Minerals mine near Orkney, South Africa.

South Korea
Sep 1982	Four South Korean coal miners rescued 14 days after being trapped in a cave-in 800 feet underground.
1968	South Korean miner survives after being trapped for 15 days.

United States
Jan 2006	One miner is found alive after 40 hours following the Sago Mine Explosion in West Virginia. Twelve miners died in the accident.
Jul 2002	Following an inundation of water from an adjacent abandoned mine, nine miners were rescued after being trapped more than three days in the Quecreek Mine in Pennsylvania.
Mar 1977	Ronald Adley survived after being trapped for nearly six days following an inundation of water at the Porter Tunnel Mine owned by the Kocher Coal Company in Tower City, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. Nine miners were killed in the accident.
May 1972	Two men, Tom Wilkinson and Ronald Flory, were rescued and found to be in good condition after being trapped for 8 days following the Sunshine silver mine fire in Kellogg, Shoshone County, Idaho. 91 miners were killed in the disaster.
May 1968	Inundation of water at the Saxsewell No. 8 Mine in Hominy Falls, WV. Fifteen men were rescued 5 days later and six others were rescued 10 days after the inundation occurred.
Aug 1963	David Fellin and Henry Throne were trapped for 14 days in the Sheppton Mine in the Pennsylvania anthracite coal region following a cave-in. A 6-inch borehole – the first such attempt in a mining rescue attempt anywhere in the world – miraculously penetrated the chamber where Fellin and Throne thought they were waiting to die.  Following that, a much larger borehole – 17½ inches in diameter – was drilled right over it. In the early hours of Tuesday, Aug. 27, 1963, first Throne, then Fellin were pulled to the surface wearing parachute harnesses and football helmets.  A third miner in the mine at the time, Lou Bova, was never recovered. More
Jul 1916	On July 25, 1916, Garrett Morgan made national news for using his gas mask to rescue 32 men trapped during an explosion in an underground tunnel 250 feet beneath Lake Erie.  Morgan and a team of volunteers donned the new "gas masks" and went to the rescue. After the rescue, Morgan's company received requests from fire departments around the country who wished to purchase the new masks.  The Morgan gas mask was later refined for use by U.S. Army during World War I.  In 1914, Garrett Morgan was awarded a patent for a Safety Hood and Smoke Protector. Two years later, a refined model of his early gas mask won a gold medal at the International Exposition of Sanitation and Safety, and another gold medal from the International Association of Fire Chiefs. See http://ech.case.edu/ech-cgi/article.pl?id=WTD for more information