Mine explosions are due to the fact that there is Methane gas being in the mine and the coal dust ignites. The families in america were compensated with 1.5 million dollars, when Chinese families were paid 10,000 yuan which is only $1,577 in U.S. dollars, but this is only for the funeral costs. They also get 660,000 yuan for compensation which is only $78,000 in U.S. dollars. Miner conditions in China are far worse than the United States because they have far less money for coal mining and the equipment that they have has either failed or they just don't have the equipment they need to test the mine. In the mine that they are talking about in particular, they didn't have a monitoring system in there to make sure that it would be safe. I also think that the reason for their mines being faulty is because they aren't paying a lot of attention to what they're doing, they just want to get the job done as quickly and easily as they can because they also knew that there might be something wrong inside the mine but they went in anyways.
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