During 2006, 72 miners lost their lives at work, 47 by coal mining.
The miners, he said, have lost much of their discipline.
The spot also reported that no miner had lost a pension.
The miners might have lost a political battle, but they had not lost a war.
During this period, 10 miners lost their lives in three separate incidents:
Does a miner lose If through the quartz he gets to gold?
With the evacuation operation today, Brazil's miners may have lost a battle.
Another 4,000 miners have lost their jobs since July, when the gold price plummeted and several other companies laid off workers, union officials say.
Former miners lost their jobs and local services have gone out of business.
Mine safety was very poor, such that 32,000 miners in Northeast Pennsylvania had lost their lives since 1870.