President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced that the last missing user was discovered dead on Saturday.
“Our priority was to place the miners in the gallery. In spite of everything, we have reached the last one. He also died, bringing the death toll to 41,” he said shortly after arriving at the site.
Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu earlier said 58 miners survived the blast, “either by themselves or thanks to rescuers. “
He said another 28 people were injured as a result of the blast.
The explosion occurred three hundred meters (984 feet) below the mine front around 15:15 GMT, the Bartin governor said.
Television footage Friday showed many people, some with tears in their eyes, gathered around a broken white construction near the front of the well.
Earlier, Turkey’s Maden-Is miners’ union attributed the explosion to a buildup of methane, but other officials said it was inopportune to draw conclusions about the cause of the accident.
Erdogan wrote on Twitter that the incident would be investigated.
In Turkey’s worst mining disaster, a total of another 301 people died in 2014 in a coal mine fire in the western Turkish city of Soma.