A 37-year-old Ballarat miner trapped underground after a shaft collapsed at Ballarat’s Mount Clear Gold mine was found dead this morning.
Two people were pinned by fallen rocks at the Ballarat site yesterday, with a 21-year-old airlifted to hospital with serious injuries.
The second man passed away. Police confirmed his body was recovered this morning.
The two men were pinned in a rockfall and trapped 500 metres underground and three kilometres into the mine, while another 25 took refuge in a safety pod and were brought to the surface late last night.
Ronnie Hayden from the Australia Workers Union telling Seven, that his co-workers are grieving…
Police Inspector Lisa MacDougall says twenty-five other miners managed to get to a safety pod.
Tributes have begun flowing for the man killed in the mine collapse.
Ballarat Mayor Des Hudson speaking there.
