A list of some recent fatal mine disasters around the world:

2013- 83 workers are buried by a massive landslide at a gold mining site in a mountainous area of Tibet, east of Lhasa, according to Chinese state media.

2012- At least 60 people dead after a landslide at a gold mine in a remote corner of northeast Congo.

2011- Fifty-two people are feared dead in southwestern Pakistan after a gas explosion deep in a coal mine in Sorange, near Quetta.

2010- 29 men are killed in New Zealand’s worst mining disaster in decades after a huge gas—fueled explosion deep underground ends hopes of rescuing the South Island coal miners, who were caught in a similar blast five days earlier.

2010- 33 miners are rescued after being trapped for 69 days in a gold and copper mine in Chile’s northern Atacama desert.

2010- 29 miners are killed in an explosion at West Virginia’s Upper Big Branch coal mine.

2007- At least 90 are killed in post—Soviet Ukraine’s worst mining disaster, after a methane blast rips through tunnels deep below ground in a coal mine near the eastern city of Donetsk.

2007- Six miners, three rescuers are killed in collapses at the Crandall Canyon coal mine in Emery County, Utah.

2006- 65 coal miners are killed from a gas explosion in San Juan de Sabinas, in northern Mexico’s Coahuila state.

2006- 12 killed in a methane explosion at the Sago coal mine in West Virginia.

2005- 214 miners die after an explosion deep in a coal shaft in southwestern China.