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Monday, Aug. 6, 2007

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6 miners trapped in collapsed Utah mine, near
center of minor earthquake

By Associated Press
Posted Monday, August 06, 2007

HUNTINGTON, Utah --

Six miners were trapped after a cave-in today at a
coal mine five miles from the epicenter of a minor earthquake, authorities
said.

The Genwal mine reported a "cave-in" at 3:50 a.m., an
hour after the magnitude 4.0 earthquake, the Emery County sheriff's office
said. "Rescue workers are on scene trying to locate six miners that are
unaccounted for," the sheriff's office.

There has been no contact with them, said Dirk
Fillpot, a spokesman at the Mine Safety and Health Administration in
Washington.

The miners were believed to be 1,500 feet (457 meters)
below the surface, about four miles (6.4 kilometers) from the mine
entrance, Fillpot said.

Rescuers were within 2,500 feet (762 meters) of their
presumed location, he said. He had no details on the difficulty of the
search.

Walter Arabasz, the head of the University of Utah's
Seismograph Stations, said there was a clear link between the quake and
the mine collapse, based on wavelengths.

A command center was being set up in Huntington, about
15 miles (24 kilometers) from the mine, said Teresa Behunin, an accountant
with Utah American Energy, which owns the mine. She had no other
details.

Rocky Mountain Power, a utility with a power plant in
the area, sent a rescue team and heavy equipment to the mine, about 140
miles (225 kilometers) south of Salt Lake City, spokesman Dave Eskelsen
said.

The sheriff's office had said earlier there were no
reports of damage or injuries blamed on the quake, centered under the
Huntington Canyon area.

"We aren't panicked yet," Linda Jewkes, president of
the Emery County Chamber of Commerce, said after hearing the news. "We're
very, very concerned and very cautious when it comes to the mines."

Utah ranked 12th in coal production in 2006. It had 13
underground coal mines in 2005, the most recent statistics available,
according to the Utah Geological Survey.

Emery County, the state's No. 2 coal-producer, also
was the site of a fire that killed 27 people in the Wilburg mine in
December 1984.

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