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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Via AP news wire

Work resumes at Montana mine where 24-year-old worker was killed in machinery accident

Copyright 2017 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

Work has resumed at a precious metals mine in south-central Montana a day after a 24-year-old worker died in an underground machinery accident, mine officials said.

Noah Dinger of Post Falls, Idaho, died just before 1:30 a.m. Monday when he was operating a machine that bolts wire panels onto the stone walls of an underground area to prevent falling rock during future mining, said Heather McDowell, a vice president with Sibanye Stillwater, the owner of the Stillwater Mine near Nye.

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