Mine 9 (2019)
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I'm not exactly an authority on coal miners and West Virginia culture in general, but Mine 9 sure makes me feel like I am. These are not toothless hillbillies, nor are they men of heroic bravery who answered the call to take on one of the most dangerous jobs on Earth. These men need work; they need to support their families. Working in the mine is a practical calculation-- stereotypes about being heroic or uneducated or poor has no bearing on the situation.
What a claustrophobic flick. Those coal miners went through trials and tribulations in order to make it out alive. Certain scenes are pretty gruesome and blood which intensify the stress of the movie. The script is well written and will keep you focus on the story. It's not an high budget film but definitely worth watching.
I was suckered in to this by a review which labelled it an indie gem. It's not an indie gem. It's heart is in the right place - with a big high five to all the miners out there who do a dangerous job. But it's just way too melodramatic at every turn. Right from the off there's forced tension and forced dialogue before I'd barely sat down.
The film uses a well-worn template, and yet I'll be damned if I don't think it uses that template fairly well. Specifically, the character dynamics are developed just enough before shit hits the proverbial fan, and the tension in the mine is more than enough to warrant a viewing.
Mensore jumps back and forth between the different groups of miners, as not everyone was in the same place during the cave in, and the rescue efforts up top with ease. Each moment builds onto the last, creating tension with masterful editing, which keeps viewer engagement high. The makeup effects on the worn down miners are also impressive and really sells the danger they are facing.
Mine 9 (2019) Directed by Eddie Mensore. Written by Eddie Mensore. Starring Terry Serpico, Mark Ashworth, Kevin Sizemore, Clint James, Drew Starkey, Alpha Trivette, Erin Elizabeth Burns, Elizabeth Houston, Owen Vaccaro.
Mensore: Sound for this was just a labor of love, really. If you were trapped two miles under the earth, what would it sound like So [we went for] lots of trippy, industrial sounds. I really wanted some of that Appalachian folk ballad music to shine through. There was gentleman by the name of Nimrod Workman, who I believe recorded his first CD at 80 years old. He started working in coalmines at nine, and he sang to himself to keep himself from being scared. So I always had that haunting music in the back of my head. I had to find a 25-year-old kid who could sing ballad music, and we went in and wrote a lot of that music together. It was really just trying to put you in that place, that Appalachian world.
New Martinsville, West Virginia, native Eddie Mensore wrote, produced and directed the film, which takes place deep inside a coal mine where nine miners with a limited oxygen supply are trapped after a methane explosion.
Mensore says he blended footage shot at a coal mine in Buchanan County, Virginia, with a film set built in Atlanta. He says the characters are based on people he knew who were miners and that the story highlights a dangerous and underappreciated profession.
Mining activities, including prospecting, exploration, construction, operation, maintenance, expansion, abandonment, decommissioning and repurposing of a mine can impact social and environmental systems in a range of positive and negative, and direct and indirect ways. Mining can yield a range of benefits to societies, but it may also cause conflict, not least in relation to above-ground and sub-surface land use. Similarly, mining can alter environments, but remediation and mitigation can restore systems. Boreal and Arctic regions are sensitive to impacts from development, both on social and environmental systems. Native ecosystems and aboriginal human communities are typically affected by multiple stressors, including climate change and pollution, for example.
We will search a suite of bibliographic databases, online search engines and organisational websites for relevant research literature using a tested search strategy. We will also make a call for evidence to stakeholders that have been identified in the wider 3MK project ( ). We will screen identified and retrieved articles at two distinct stages (title and abstract, and full text) according to a predetermined set of inclusion criteria, with consistency checks at each level to ensure criteria can be made operational. We will then extract detailed information relating to causal linkages between actions or impacts and measured outcomes, along with descriptive information about the articles and studies and enter data into an interactive systematic map database. We will visualise this database on an Evidence Atlas (an interactive, cartographic map) and identify knowledge gaps and clusters using Heat Maps (cross-tabulations of important variables, such as mineral type and studied impacts). We will identify good research practices that may support researchers in selecting the best study designs where these are clear in the evidence base.
Mining activities, including prospecting, exploration, construction, operation, maintenance, expansion, abandonment, decommissioning and repurposing of a mine can impact social and environmental systems in a range of positive and negative, and direct and indirect ways. Mine exploration, construction, operation, and maintenance may result in land-use change, and may have associated negative impacts on environments, including deforestation, erosion, contamination and alteration of soil profiles, contamination of local streams and wetlands, and an increase in noise level, dust and emissions (e.g. [1,2,3,4,5]). Mine abandonment, decommissioning and repurposing may also result in similar significant environmental impacts, such as soil and water contamination [6,7,8]. Beyond the mines themselves, infrastructure built to support mining activities, such as roads, ports, railway tracks, and power lines, can affect migratory routes of animals and increase habitat fragmentation [9, 10].
Mining can also have positive and negative impacts on humans and societies. Negative impacts include those on human health (e.g. [11]) and living standards [12], for example. Mining is also known to affect traditional practices of Indigenous peoples living in nearby communities [13], and conflicts in land use are also often present, as are other social impacts including those related to public health and human wellbeing (e.g. [14,15,16,17]. In terms of positive impacts, mining is often a source of local employment and may contribute to local and regional economies [18, 19]. Remediation of the potential environmental impacts, for example through water treatment and ecological restoration, can have positive net effects on environmental systems [20]. Mine abandonment, decommissioning and repurposing can also have both positive and negative social impacts. Examples of negative impacts include loss of jobs and local identities [21], while positive impact can include opportunities for new economic activities [22], e.g. in the repurposing of mines to become tourist attractions.
Impacts (direct and indirect, positive and negative) associated with metal mining (for gold, iron, copper, nickel, zinc, silver, molybdenum and lead) or its mitigation measures. We focus on these metals as they represent approximately 88% of Arctic and boreal mines (according to relevant country operating mine data from 2015, [33]), and contains the top 5 minerals extracted in the region (gold, iron, copper, nickel and zinc). Furthermore, these minerals include all metals mined within Sweden, the scope of a related workstream within the broader 3MK project ( ).
A set of 41 studies known to be relevant have been provided by the Advisory Team and Working Group (review team); the benchmark list (see Additional file 4). During scoping and development of the search string, the bibliographic database search results will be checked to ascertain whether any of these studies were not found. For any cases where articles on the benchmark list are missed by the draft search string, we will examine why these studies may have been missed and adapt the search string accordingly.
We will include all impacts (positive, negative, direct and indirect) associated with any aspect of metal mining and its mitigation measures. We will include research pertaining to all stages of mining, from prospecting onwards as follows: prospecting, exploration, construction, operation, maintenance, expansion, abandonment, decommissioning, reopening and repurposing. Eligible mines will include those of gold, iron, copper, nickel, zinc, silver, molybdenum and lead.
ARTS ATL recently sat down with Mine 9 filmmaker Eddie Mensore and associate producer Gabe Pippas to chat about mine sets, crawling camera shots and the nuts and bolts of making this unique Georgia production.
The Brumadinho dam disaster occurred on 25 January 2019 when Dam I, a tailings dam at the Córrego do Feijão iron ore mine, 9 kilometres (5.6 mi) east of Brumadinho, Minas Gerais, Brazil, suffered a catastrophic failure.[1] The dam is owned by Vale, the same company that was involved in the 2015 Mariana dam disaster.[2] The dam released a mudflow that advanced through the mine's offices, including a cafeteria during lunchtime, along with houses, farms, inns, and roads downstream.[3][4][5][6] 270 people died as a result of the collapse, of whom 259 were officially confirmed dead, in January 2019, and 11 others reported as missing, whose bodies had not been found.[7][8]
According to the national registry of the National Mining Agency, the Córrego do Feijão dam, built in 1976 by the Ferteco Mineração and acquired by the iron ore miner Vale in 2001, was classified as a small structure with low risk of high potential damage. In a statement, the State Department of Environment and Sustainable Development reported