The information portal Veriu.info has published on its official Facebook page a photograph claiming to show Trepça miners on the ninth horizon, at a depth of over 800 meters.
After fact-checking conducted by hibrid.info, it has been confirmed that the photograph does not depict Trepca miners, but that it was taken at the "Stara Jama" mine in Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Link to the post published on Facebook from the "Veriu.info" portal page:
https://archive.is/sjqbK#selection-467.0-467.162
After researching through the automated online program "InVID", hibrid.info found the same photo published on the online photography platform "Alamy", which shows the publication date of July 15, 2015, and which was taken by photographer Dado Ruvic.
The image carries the caption "Coal miners pray as they fast during the holy month of Ramadan, 740 meters (2427 feet) deep inside the Stara Jama coal mine, in Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina, July 15, 2015." (see photo below)
The same photo was also found and published in the British media outlet "TheGuardian.com", the description of which explains that the images show miners in Bosnia and Herzegovina. (see here)
Screenshot from the article published in TheGuardian
Last year, the same photo was published by another portal in Kosovo, claiming that the images showed Trepca miners. This content was also verified by hibrid.info. (see here)
Analyze:
Based on fact-checking, hibrid.info has confirmed that the "Veriu.info" portal has published on Facebook a photograph of miners in Bosnia and Herzegovina, claiming that it shows Trepca miners eating suhoor at a depth of over 800 meters.
Based on its work methodology, hibrid.info assesses this post by the "Veriu.info" portal as "Unverified Content".
Reasoning:
The “Unverified” rating is given to those media reports that do not provide sufficient information to confirm the claims made in the report, and which have not been able to confirm the same due to the lack or non-possession of reliable sources.