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poppy harlow joins us live now from new york. i ve got to ask you, what was it like being down in that mine so far underground? reporter: it was a little terrifying at first. the first thing they did is put a self-rescuer on me and showed me what to do if we got trapped in the mine. but it was kind of a gradual descent to go two miles deep. but you talk to these workers, and many of them have spent half their lives underground. i say to them, would you like to be above ground mining up there? and they say, no, we love it down here. they really love the industry. as you heard in the piece, nevada is suffering the worst foreclosure rate in the country. this is the industry, carol, that has saved nevada in some ways. 1,000 people work at the mine. bar alaska h barack has a big mine. a lot of women workers, this surprised me, there are a lot of women working at that mine that said, thank goodness it s there, ....

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