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China's coalmines: inside the gates
Fatal coal mine disasters in China feature all too often in news headlines, yet the industry guards obsessively against intrusion or observation, especially from foreign media. Award winning photographer Michael Coyne is one of the few to get close enough to picture life in a mine. The result is this compelling series.
- ucanews.com Friday 16 November 2012

A discussion of coal mining in China involves a string of superlatives: China is the world’s largest coal consumer; the Chinese coal industry is the world’s most advanced; and working in a Chinese coal mine is widely acknowledged to be the world’s most dangerous job.
Photograph © Michael Coyne
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