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Last week i visited the mine at Spring hill, Nova Scotia, now a museum. A wonderful gentleman, who was at one time a miner in that very mine led our tour. He took us step by step into a miners life, past and present. It was a very sad state of affairs, disasters that happened and killed so many men. These people go to work in the mine everyday, and one thing they all have in common when they go in is "am i going to be going home at the end of my shift". They work their fingers to the bone in awful conditions, and in complete darkness.

One story, i could not get my head around was a disaster that happened in which many men were killed at Spring hill. As soon as disaster struck, the owners of that mine left, they were out of there. They left these people in chaos, despair and sickness. No-one was paid for their work that they had owed to them, the families had funerals to pay for, but no means to pay for them. The miners in turn took that mine apart, sold most of what they could and the money was given to the families.

Mines are a dangerous place to work, and like every other workplace should be held to more rigorous inspections....it could be one of your loved ones down there.

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