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Marshall Hamilton
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Quotes by Marshall Hamilton
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The fire is out, it's obviously good news. They're all safe, they're all secure, they're all accounted for and we'll be escorting them out of the mine sometime tonight.
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You'd be hard-pressed to find any mining operation in the world that has a better safety record.
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In those refuge stations, the workers can seal themselves in and be safe with enough oxygen, food and water to be comfortable for 36 hours at the least.
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In those refuge stations, they can seal themselves off and there's oxygen, food and water. And they can stay in there for at least 36 hours.
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Everybody's proud of what we've accomplished by following our basic procedures.
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It really is a good news story. It's because of the training of our people that we're happy to report that everybody is safe and within the next hour we anticipate everybody will be on surface and headed home towards warm beds.
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They're probably the same as us. They're a little bit tired. They're a little bit anxious. They have confidence that we've going to safely bring them up. Nevertheless, they'd like to see them sooner rather than later.
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They are equipped with breathing apparatus that lasts for approximately four hours, although we rarely go anywhere near four hours.
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All 72 of our miners are safely on surface and are completely healthy. I can assure you we will be doing a complete investigation in the coming days and once we know the cause of that, we will take steps to make sure it does not happen again.
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