Marshall Hamilton
Marshall Hamilton
basic following proud
Everybody's proud of what we've accomplished by following our basic procedures.
They are all safe, they are all healthy.
kid relief
I won't kid you, there was a lot of relief in that.
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We have had fires underground but none that we can remember that have been this tricky.
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Right now, it wasn't as important for us to determine what caused it as it was for us to put it out and get our workers to safely to surface.
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I'm almost getting choked up thinking about how well this team worked together. We live in rural Saskatchewan and we band together.
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There are a number of fine rescue people; everybody has been contributing to the success of this and I don't want to underestimate the contributions that our communities are making. We live in rural Saskatchewan and we ban together.
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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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We've seen evidence that they've sealed themselves off. We have no reason to doubt they are anything but safe.
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Whether they had the proper firefighting equipment nearby or not, I don't know, but we'll take whatever steps are necessary to make sure that if that same job was done tomorrow, that same fire couldn't happen.
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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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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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They are equipped with breathing apparatus that lasts for approximately four hours, although we rarely go anywhere near four hours.
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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.