Claim that quake caused UT mine disaster rejected

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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A University of Utah study had rejected a company’s claims concerning the cause of a 2007 collapse at Utah’s Crandall Canyon coal mine that killed nine people.

The scientists presented findings of their research Friday at the Seismological Society of America’s annual convention Friday in Salt Lake City.

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