31.   At least eight miners were killed Friday in a cave-in at a coal mine near the border with Venezuela.

32.   At least three miners were killed and dozens were seriously injured on Monday in a coal mine explosion in southern Bulgaria, state radio reported.

33.   At least eight sand miners were killed Thursday when a flood washed tons of hardened lava down the slopes of the Mount Kelud volcano.

34.   Eleven miners were killed by a gas explosion in a small unlicensed coal mine in southern China, the official Xinhua News Agency said Friday.

35.   Eleven miners were killed in a gas explosion at a coal mine in northeast China on Sunday, according to a report received in Beijing on Thursday.

36.   Five miners were killed and four suffered serious burns in an explosion in a coal mine in northern Russia on Sunday.

37.   Five miners were killed and three were severely injured.

38.   Five Russian miners were killed in an explosion at a mine in the Kemerovo region of Siberia, officials said Friday.

39.   Five miners were killed in February when part of the mine was flooded, and one miner died and ten were injured in a blast in June.

40.   Five miners were killed Tuesday after two tremors shook a gold mine west of Johannesburg, officials said.