OUAGADOUGOU—A seventh dead body of a miner missing from a Burkina Faso zinc mine owned by Trevali Mining Corp. that flooded on April 16 was discovered on Wednesday and search teams are continuing to look for an eighth, the government said in a statement.
Hopes of finding any survivors vanished last month when rescue teams found no one inside a refuge chamber in which there was a slim chance eight miners who did not manage to resurface might have sought shelter.
Burkina Faso government said earlier on Wednesday that the two remaining bodies had been recovered, but issued another statement later to rectify the information….