Claim: Trapped miners gave their oxygen to one of their number, a young father, who survived. Status: Multiple — see below. Example: [Collected via e-mail, 2006] ...

It took the lives of 91 miners in the Sunshine Mine, ... “I remember his black lunch box. It was the kind you put the thermos in, then he tucked me in bed with my mom,” Tammy recounted.

For the Modern Miner: During the Great Depression, a 17-year-old miner tried to sit on an old tin box and it collapsed. He designed this aluminum lunch box in response. Kaufmann Mercantile’s ...

As clean-up efforts continued Friday at Gentry Mountain Mine following a deadly flash flood, the community donated lunch and supplies to miners.\n\n ...