Just ask the coal miners in Australia.

You may recognize a couple of the miners there.

In coal mines, this canary was supposed to be close to the miners.

The State shall take special protective measures for miners working in underground coal mines.

And the miners in the early part of the last century worked, literally, in candlelight.

To introduce cleaner technologies for gold extraction and to train the miners in their application

Article 44 Coal mining enterprises must provide accidental injury insurance for miners working underground and pay premiums.

Sapo, Liberia's only national park, has been invaded by more than 4,000 illegal gold miners and bushmeat hunters.

Moreover, this small team together with, of course, you need the heavy vehicles and the manual de miners to follow up.

Countless lives have been saved by canaries in coalmines a simple and invaluable way for miners to know whether they're safe.

A very natural technology, in order to say to the miners, The air is too bad. You have to go. It's an emergency.

Article 41 When an irresistible emergency occurs which may endanger the lives and safety of the miners who are working underground in coal mines, the person in charge on the spot or other persons in charge of safety shall immediately help the miners to leave the dangerous site and report the matter to the leading members concerned without delay.

On the consumption side, recent adjustment measures have increased wages of miners and soldiers more than other workers, leading to differences in purchasing power.

The embargo on the export of diamonds from Liberia is rapidly becoming ineffective, as miners dig with a flagrant disregard for national or United Nations authority.

The Chilean miners survived against the odds, so perhaps the rest of us will somehow get by as well. But who, exactly, is responsible for the rescue operation?

During overflights, the Panel was able to identify two D6 Caterpillar earth movers, a sizeable mechanical digger, at least 60 miners at work, pumps and a washing plant.

Botanist Corneille Ewango talks about his work at the Okapi Faunal Reserve in the Congo Basin and his heroic work protecting it from poachers, miners and raging civil wars.

A presentation was made to the Plenary on the Diamond Development Initiative (DDI), an independent initiative aimed at improving the working conditions of, and remuneration to artisanal diamond miners.

It will involve introducing clean technologies, training miners, developing regulatory mechanisms and capacities within Government, conducting environmental and health assessments, and building capacities in local laboratories to continue monitoring mercury pollution.

When we visited, it gave some of the people we were with this strange little cough after being only there for just a few hours or so not just miners, but everybody.

In early 1974, Edward Heath s Conservative government was locked in a struggle with the powerful coal miners union over who rules Britain. He called a premature election in February, in which there was no clear winner.

SYDNEY The rescue of the 33 Chilean miners, from what was feared would be their tomb, gave the world something to cheer about. Hope has not, after all, become a redundant virtue in the twenty first century.

In consequence, people are moving back into mining areas in numbers, miners are digging at will with no fear of interference from the authorities, and the level of mining activity has increased significantly over the past few months.

Article 78 Where administrators of a coal mining enterprise give directions against regulations and order miners to work at risk, thus causing serious casualty, they shall be investigated for criminal responsibility according to the provisions of Article 114 of the Criminal Law.

And I went to see one of these experiments, and this is actually you can barely see it, and the reason for that is it's entirely dark in there this is a cavern that was left behind by the miners who left this mine in 1960.

Outputs Community households equipped with adequate arsenic filtering equipment Artisanal gold mining communities trained and equipped with technologies to reduce health and environment exposure to mercury Reduced use of mercury by small scale gold miners and more sustainable use of the remaining amounts Information, materials, books, brochures, web pages published advisory services provided and training programmes implemented.

World Vision in West Africa provided information on the types of abduction in West Africa, including children associated with the fighting forces, children falsely enticed through their families to be taken to foreign countries, and children who are enticed into the mining sector by miners, as well as children who are in the street or separated from their families.

The dividing lines may be less sharp than they were with apartheid, but our continued high level of greenhouse gas emissions protects the interests of one group of humans mainly affluent people who are alive today at the cost of others. (Compared to most of the world s population, even the American and Australian coal miners who would lose their jobs if the industry shut down are affluent.)

Currently, a master plan was being prepared with a view to eliminating the worst forms of child labour by 2007 and all forms of child labour by 2010 and a strategic plan had been adopted for dealing with seven key categories of child workers workers under conditions of slavery, scavengers, carriers, house servants, miners, rug makers, trafficked girls and children exploited sexually or as labour.

Article 42 When members of the trade unions of coal mining enterprises find that administrators of the enterprises give directions against regulations and order miners to work at risks or when they scent hidden danger of obviously serious accident which may threaten the lives and safety of workers, they shall have the right to make proposals for tackling the problem, and the administrative body of the coal mining enterprise must make prompt decision to deal with it.

Of course, like any shrewd politician, Thatcher knew which battles were unwinnable, or had to be postponed but she always preferred winning a fight to reaching a compromise. She won the sobriquet Iron Lady for her decisive leadership in the Falklands War yet most of her battles were fought against sections of her own people the enemy within, like the miners whom she crushed in the strike of 1984 1985, or Ken Livingstone s Greater London Council, which she abolished in 1986.