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:: Saturday, December 18, 2004 ::
Blame shared in mining tragedy CP, Edmonton Sun
YELLOWKNIFE -- The final chapter in one of Canada's worst mining tragedies closed yesterday with a court ruling that found that the families of nine murdered miners have suffered more than $10 million in damages. Justice Arthur Lutz of the Northwest Territories Supreme Court also found that mining company Royal Oak Mines and the union that represented the workers shared almost as much blame for the deaths as the murderer himself.
The nine men died on Sept. 18, 1992, when their mine car hit a bomb deliberately set deep underground at the Giant Mine in Yellowknife. They had crossed the union picket line to go to work.
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