Beaconsfield Mine collapse
2006 mining accident in Tasmania, Australia / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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"Brant Webb" redirects here. Not to be confused with Brent Webb or Brent W. Webb.
The Beaconsfield gold mine collapsed on 25 April 2006 in Beaconsfield, Tasmania, Australia. Of the seventeen people who were in the mine at the time, fourteen escaped immediately following the collapse, one miner (Larry Knight) was killed, while the remaining two (Brant Webb and Todd Russell) were found alive on the sixth day by miners Pat Ball and Steve Saltmarsh. Webb and Russell were rescued on 9 May 2006, two weeks after being trapped nearly 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) below the surface.