Posts Tagged ‘Chile’
Chilean Miners One Step Closer To Rescue
Cheers rang out shortly after 8 a.m. Chilean time when a drill, boring a rescue shaft to 33 trapped Chilean miners, broke through into a chamber half a mile underground where they have been stranded for two months. The miners have been trapped since Aug. 5 after an access tunnel caved in at Cia. Minera San Esteban Primera SA’s San Jose copper [...]
Thirty Three Found Alive After Chilean Mine Disaster
The 33 miners trapped in a gold and copper mine in northern Chile since August 5 have been found alive Sunday. Experts and workers familiar with the facility believe they have some 1.8 kilometres (more than a mile) of space within which to move underground. "There is more than enough space" for the miners' survival, said Gino Erazo, another [...]
