On November 3, 1975, Txema Gómez was eight years old. It was a normal Monday at school until frantic shouts erupted in the playground amidst the ball games. "There's been an explosion in the mine." Gómez had a strange feeling. He couldn't remember if his father was working the morning or afternoon shift that day, but he had a bad feeling. After a moment of tense silence in the classroom, there was a knock at the door. It was a neighbor, also a miner, who took him to a relative's house to confirm the news. "I grew up overnight," says the son of one of the 30 workers who died in that explosion, 50 years later. firedamp explosion in the La Consolació mine, in Fígols (Berguedà)Half a century later, none of the responsible managers were convicted for the negligence that the descendants of the victims have been told about in the wake of the accident.