22-11-2021, 04:04 PM
(22-11-2021, 03:57 PM)Bracken Wrote: The Brunner Mine disaster is the deadliest mining disaster in New Zealand’s history: 65 killed.That's likely to be a part of it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brunner_Mine_disaster
Perhaps part of the reason the Pike tragedy captured the imagination of NZ was that it happened just a few weeks after the Copiapó mining accident in Chile, 5 August – 13 October 2010, and the safe rescue there of 'Los 33'.
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)