Beaconsfield mine disaster survivor Brant Webb has revealed he 'never liked' fellow trapped miner Todd Russell, making the admission two days after Mr Russell's death.
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Mr Russell died at the age of 54 at his home on Monday night after fighting leukaemia for more than a year.
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In 2006, Mr Russell and Mr Webb spent 14 days buried alive after a 2.2-magnitude earth tremor caused a rockfall inside the mine, trapping them 900m underground.
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Just two days after Mr Russell's death, Mr Webb revealed his long-held feelings towards his workmate during an interview with Robert McKnight for McKnight Tonight on Wednesday.
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McKnight asked Mr Webb, 'Did you like him?', to which the former miner replied: 'No, not really.'
Mr Webb said the pair did not 'hate each other' but that they never saw eye-to-eye.
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'We didn't have anything in common at all, really.
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The only thing we had in common was we stayed in the hole for two weeks together,' he told McKnight.
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'We didn't hate each other, we just didn't see eye-to-eye and we had different views on life and what we were doing and where we were going.
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Beaconsfield mine disaster survivor Brant Webb told McKnight Tonight he 'never liked' his fellow survivor Todd Russell
Webb said the pair did not share anything in common other than spending two weeks trapped together during the Beaconsfield mine disaster in 2006
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Mr Webb said he developed a better relationship with Mr Russell's family than with his former mining colleague.
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Following the interview, Mr Webb sent a message to the show claiming he was relieved after revealing his feelings towards Russell.
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'I feel a weight has lifted, a 20 years of keeping a secret for a bloke that didn't respect me,' he wrote.
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Despite their differences, the pair set up the Russell-Webb Legacy Foundation, a charity supporting young people experiencing homelessness as well as local charities in Beaconsfield and Tasmania.
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Mr Russell spent eight and a half months in Launceston General Hospital fighting leukaemia.
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Less than a week before his death, Mr Russell wrote on social media that his doctors had no further treatment options to suggest.
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'After years of pain, uncertainty, appointments, treatments, setbacks and endless battles, plus the emotional exhaustion of having to pick myself up time and time again, [they] have left me with nothing left to give,' he said.
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'The time has come, medically and [physically], where there are no further options on either front for me and there is no more fight left in me.
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Webb revealed his long-held feelings towards his workmate just two days after Russell died following a battle with leukaemia
In 2006, Russell and Webb (pictured, emerging from the mine) spent 14 days buried alive after a 2.2-magnitude earth tremor caused a rockfall inside the mine, trapping them 900m underground
After a delicate two-week rescue operation, the pair famously left the mine fist pumping the air and were reunited with their families
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I will leave hospital tomorrow after eight and a half months for the last time to see out my days in my own home surrounded by my wife, kids, loved ones and friends.'
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Mr Russell and Mr Webb had been working in a steel cage at the end of a teleloader in the Beaconsfield mine, northeast Tasmania, on the night of April 25, 2006.
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A 2.2-magnitude tremor triggered an underground rockfall shortly before 9.30pm, trapping the pair 900m below ground.
The pair were feared dead after the body of a third miner, Larry Knight, who had been driving the work vehicle, was found in the rubble two days after the earthquake.
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Many lost hope of finding the pair alive.
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However, the men were discovered four days after the collapse, during which time they survived on a single muesli bar and groundwater.
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After a delicate two-week rescue operation, the pair emerged from the mine to worldwide attention before reuniting with their families.
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Webb paid tribute to Russell on Tuesday, and told ABC NewsRadio the two were 'always bumping into each other'.
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'I'm very sorry to hear the news about Todd.
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My thoughts are with his kids and loved ones at this difficult time,' he said.
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'I work 100 metres from his house...
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But the last eight months I sort of hadn't had much to do with him because he's been in hospital.'
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