Chile Mine Rescue

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  Chilean Mine Rescue: When 33 Miners Were Buried Alive For 69 Days In Scorching Heat

  5 years after the San Jose mine collapse in Chile, the world remembers the miraculous survival of 33 miners trapped underground for 69 days.

• Miners' secrecy pact erodes in spotlight

  Family members of the 33 miners who were trapped for 69 days had said a special Mass on Sunday would be a chance for the miners to find closure and understanding. As one of them, Omar Reygadas, 56, left the service and walked with his family to the tent where they had lived while the men were trapped, cameramen and photographers surrounded him. His...

• Rewards for miners rescued in Chile

  The lucky ones now have more than $10,000 in the bank and a free vacation in Greece awaiting them. But for the moment, many of the family members of the 33 miners trapped under the hard volcanic rock here for more than two months seemed content to remain at Camp Hope on Thursday, tending to their tents and sweeping away the desert dust from their m...

• Chile miners to play football game: President

  Chile's 33 rescued miners are to play a football game later this month against officials who helped extract them to safety, President Sebastian Pinera said today after visiting the men in hospital.        "The winners will get La Moneda (the presidential palace), and the losers will have to go back into the mine,"...

• As Chile celebrates, mine's future in question

  Chileans reveled on Thursday in the stunning glory and jubilation of a record-setting mine rescue. As the celebration fades, however, several key questions await resolution.Officials at the copper and gold mine whose collapse trapped the 33 men for more than two months still have to answer why it was allowed to operate at all.Attention will also fo...

• All 33 miners pulled to safety in Chile

  Two months, nine days, and eight hours after their excruciating ordeal began, the last of the 33 miners trapped a half-mile underground in Chile was delivered safely to the earth's surface, capping perhaps the most dramatic survival story in mining history. (Pics)With the entire nation rapt and much of the world riveted, the last miner, Luis Urzua,...

• Fame to affect adjustments for miners

  The ordinary miners are long gone, left behind in another lifetime. The 33 men who are expected to emerge from Chile's San José Mine after more than two months trapped underground are now icons, national heroes, global media stars. And that mixed status -- celebrities as well as survivors, equal parts victors and victims -- will alter the usu...

• Chile rejoices as capsule brings 22 miners to freedom

  Each time the red, white and blue capsule rose smoothly out of the hole in the earth on Wednesday and another miner emerged safely, to applause and the waiting arms of his family, the scene replayed all around world with a joy that never seemed tired. (See Pics)By mid-afternoon here, the precarious operation to hoist to the surface 33 miners who we...

• Chileans hope to begin rescue of miners on Wednesday

  After more than two months trapped deep in a Chilean mine, 33 miners are enjoying Sunday tantalizingly close to rescue. Drillers have completed an escape shaft, and Chile's mining minister says a video inspection shows the hole's walls are firm enough to allow the men to be hoisted out as early as Wednesday.Officials said late Saturday that workers...

• Drill gets through to escape shaft to rescue miners

  They wept, they cheered, sirens blared and a bell at a makeshift schoolhouse rang in celebration. Mounted polices patrol the surrounding area of the San Jose mine. After nearly two months of waiting, the moment had finally arrived. At 8:05 a.m. on Saturday, here in a camp in this scorching desert, a powerful drill pierced through abrasive volcanic ...

• Weekend rescue for Chile miners?

  Before 33 trapped Chilean miners can begin their passage to the outside world, still more people will join them down below to make their journey as smooth as it can be.These men -- an elite group of three paramedics with the Chilean navy's special forces and 13 rescue experts with the state-owned mining company Codelco -- will work in shifts during...

• Chile: Rescue 'capsule' for trapped miners arrives at mine

  Chilean officials said the rescue of 33 miners trapped in the San Jose mine in the Atacama desert since August 5th, could take place as early as November.Health Minister Jaime Manalich said all precautions are in place to treat the miners once they are removed from the cave where they have been living for more than fifty days.Manalich said the proc...

• A relieved Chile braces for a long mine rescue

  Through a skinny borehole from the surface, the 33 miners trapped more than 2,000 feet below the parched earth here have gotten a gel-like substance to keep them alive, tiny lights to illuminate the darkness and encouraging notes from their families waiting above.What they have not gotten is the difficult news: that it could take more than three mo...

• Chile: It may take 4 months to rescue trapped miners

  Thirty-three Chilean miners trapped nearly half a mile underground and facing perhaps four months before rescue are now receiving food, water and oxygen from above ground.Through a newly installed communications system, each of the men spoke and reported feeling hungry but well.Sergio Aguila, a doctor on the rescue team, said the miners had sustain...