* Zinc mine flooded on April 16 after torrential rain. * Underground rescue chamber found intact but empty. * Eight miners remain unaccounted for. * Government, company investigating causes of disaster. By Anne Mimault and Thiam Ndiaga.
Trevali Mining Corp (TVLMF) said on Tuesday that the refuge chamber at its flooded Perkoa mine in Burkina Faso was found intact with no one inside, confirming that none of the eight missing workers reached the refuge chamber. "The company's search crews will continue to work at maximum capacity, 24-hours-per-day until the missing individuals are recovered," it said in a statement.
Rescue workers have found no survivors in a rescue chamber inside Trevali Mining Corp's (TVLMF) flooded Perkoa zinc mine in Burkina Faso where eight miners have been missing since April 16, the government said in a statement on Tuesday.
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Executives at Canada-based Trevali Mining Corp (TVLMF) said the company was caught unawares by a torrential downpour during the dry season last month in Burkina Faso that left eight men trapped underground in its Perkoa zinc mine. Rescue efforts are continuing since the flood on April 16, but there has been no communication with the missing miners and it is not known whether any survived.
The families of eight missing miners in Burkina Faso desperately awaited news from rescue teams continuing on Thursday to locate the men who have been stuck underground for 26 days. There has been no communication with the miners since they were trapped more than 500 metres below ground during a flood at Canada-based Trevali Mining Corp's Perkoa zinc mine on April 16.
The families of eight missing miners in Burkina Faso desperately awaited news from rescue teams continuing on Thursday to locate the men who have been stuck underground for 26 days. There has been no communication with the miners since they were trapped more than 500 metres below ground during a flood at Canada-based Trevali Mining Corp's Perkoa zinc mine on April 16.
Rescue teams pumping water from a flooded Burkina Faso zinc mine in which eight workers have been trapped for almost a month are drawing closer to a refuge chamber where they may have sought safety, the government said on Wednesday.
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