Travel to the mining regions with the highest pensions in Spain

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On his last day in the mine, a 61-year-old Ángel Gutiérrez had a stone fall on him, as big as a tombstone. It broke several ribs and two vertebras. 'I'm lucky to be here, I thought I was going to die. The last thing I did in the mine was to leave in a stretcher.' His brother Felipe (58) also narrowly escaped death underground. 'I only had one more wagon to load and a huge rock fell on my leg. It split it open and I got turned upside down.' A unc…