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Lance Begnaud II, 27, of Broussard, and Rene Romero Jr., 41, of New Iberia, died from injuries sustained in the Dec. 14 collapse at the mine operated by Cargill Deicing Technologies.
Avery Island is a salt dome surrounded by marsh in lower Iberia Parish, which borders the Gulf of Mexico.
It s not an island in the traditional sense. That is, it s not surrounded by a body of open water, Shane Bernard, historian and curator for the McIlhenny Co., wrote on his blog in 2016. In fact, it s located about 3 miles inland from the nearest body of open water. But it is surrounded on all sides by wetlands either grassy salt marsh, wooded cypress swamp, or slow-moving, muddy bayous. ....

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