WINNEMUCCA, Nev.—Rescue crews Wednesday recovered the body of miner killed during a cave-in at an underground Nevada gold mine, authorities said.
Dirk Fillpot, a spokesman with the Mine Safety and Health Administration in Washington, D.C., said the miner was recovered and pronounced dead around 12 p.m.
The man’s name was not immediately released.
Crews had been searching for the worker since before dawn the previous day, when the ground gave way at the Getchell Mine east of Winnemucca.
The Getchell Mine, a joint venture owned by Toronto-based Barrick Gold Corp. and Denver-based Newmont Mining Corp., is operated by Small Mining Development LLC, or SMD, an independent contractor based in Boise, Idaho, Barrick officials said.
The miner was operating a bolter, a large piece of equipment used to drill bolts into the hard rock, when the accident occurred around 2 a.m. Tuesday.
Barrick spokesman Lou Schack said the accident occurred about 2,000 feet from a portal, but the cave-in was confined to one area.
It is the second fatal mining accident in Nevada in as many months.
In June, 30-year-old Dan Shaw was killed when the ground gave way as he was working on a loader at Newmont’s Midas mine, another underground gold mine also near Winnemucca.
His body was recovered 13 days after the accident.
