Nevada Mining  By: Alana Adams By: Alana Adams  "When I went to
bed last night, the story was 12 guys survived and I got up this
morning and found out that wasn't true at all."  Bert Bellows
was a miner in Nevada for 25 years, spending ten of those years
working in an underground mine. He says hard rock mining in
Nevada is very different from the coal mining in West Virginia
that killed 12 people this week, but despite differences the
danger still exists.  "One of the things about coal mining that
makes it very dangerous is the atmosphere created by the
material you are mining."  He says that methane could easily be
exposed when you cut into a rock and ignite a spark in the
process, the combination creates an instant explosion, he says,
that can happen despite any safeguards. However, Alan Coyner
with the Nevada Division of Minerals, says this type of
explosion will not happen in Nevada.  "We have no coal and coal
is the material that creates the methane gas that caused the
explosion in West Virginia. Again,