New Zealand mine blast leaves 27 missing

Rescue workers are trying to contact 27 miners missing after an explosion at Pike River Coal Co’s coking mine on the west coast of New Zealand. mobile crusher
There hasn’t been any communication with the miners and it isn’t known if they are trapped or sheltering, Pike River Coal’s chief executive officer Peter Whittall said. Two miners emerged after the blast and indicated that three colleagues were on their way to the surface, police said in a statement.
Ventilation inside the mine may have been compromised by the explosion which took place about 4pm local time, police said. Minister of Energy and Resources Gerry Brownlee said he is travelling to the region and that a local mine rescue team had been activated.
There were no indications of “heightened risk” at the mine before today’s accident, according to Andrew Little, the national secretary of the Engineering, Printing & Manufacturing Union, which represents 71 of about 140 workers at the mine. vibrating screen 
“It’s a reasonably new mine and it’s only been in production for a year or so,” Little said. “They delayed production because they weren’t satisfied that the ventilation system was right so they’ve been pretty careful about that.”
Pike River, near Greymouth, is part-owned by India’s Gujarat NRE Coke Ltd and Saurashtra Fuels Pvt who also take part of its low-ash, low-phosphorus coking coal. The mine is forecast to produce 320,000-360,000t in the year ending June 30, the company said on October 19.
New Zealand’s last mining disaster occurred in 1967, when 19 people died in an explosion at the Strongman coal mine, also near Greymouth.
The company’s shares fell 14% to 61 Australian cents in Sydney before they were halted from trading. The stock fell 4.4% to 88 New Zealand cents at the Wellington close.
One person may have been killed in the blast, the New Zealand Herald said, citing a report on Newstalk ZB. Five miners have walked free from the mine, Sky Television News reported, without saying where it obtained the information.
Mining employs about 6,000 people in New Zealand, according to government website www.beehive.govt.nz. The industry earned about NZ$1.1 billion (US$853 million) in export receipts in 2009.

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