From the Archives: Father of 3 returns for fellow miner despite impending blasts
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It was 1973. Peter S. Norman, a 42-year-old miner from New Denver, British Columbia, was working 0.9 miles underground, deep in a Silmonac mine. There in a tunnel, about 8 …