M/NM Mine Disasters – Specific Month Report
Date State Type Type Mine Name Location Killed
8/29/1895 CO Inundation Gold Sleepy Hollow Sleepy Hollow, CO 12
8/23/1911 NV Fire Copper Giroux Ely, NV 7
8/13/1913 AZ Haulage Copper Coronado Incline Clifton, AZ 9
8/4/1914 NV Explosion Copper Copper Flat Steam Pit McGill, NV 5
8/13/1920 VA Blasting Rock Pounding Mill Quarry Pounding Mill, VA 9
8/27/1922 CA Fire Gold Argonaut Jackson, CA 47
8/13/1936 NV Suffocation Copper Mountain City Copper Mountain City, NV 6
8/31/1938 NC Blasting Granite Asheville Quarry Asheville, NC 5
8/27/1963 UT Explosion Potash Cane Creek Mine Moab, UT 18
8/11/1978 NY Rock Slide S&G Heald Pit Remsen, NY 3
8/30/1978 LA Machinery Bauxite Gramercy Works Gramercy, LA 3
8/10/1993 AZ Raise Collapse Copper Magma Superior, AZ 4
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