Chile Miners Trapped

• First ray of light reaches trapped Chile miners

  After more than two months trapped deep in a Chilean mine, 33 miners were tantalisingly close to rescue on Sunday.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 on Saturday that workers fi...

• 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...

• Chile could rescue trapped miners by mid-October: Report

  Workers in Chile expect to be able to rescue 33 trapped miners by mid-October, rather than early November as originally anticipated, a news report said on Tuesday.The daily El Mercurio newspaper, citing unnamed government sources, reported that officials said state-of-the-art drilling equipment at the scene has made faster-than-expected progress in...

• Third drill to the rescue for Chile's trapped miners

  Chile is sparing no expense to rescue its 33 trapped miners, mounting three separate drilling efforts to carve escape tunnels through nearly a half-mile of solid rock and collapsed mine shafts.The latest -- an oil-well drill so big it takes 40 trucks to carry it -- began arriving yesterday. The drill will be nearly 45 meters tall when assembled at ...

• NASA: Don't give false hope to Chile Miners

  A 31-ton drill is boring a "pilot" hole from the floor of Chile's Atacama Desert down 2,200 feet (700 metres) to the area in the San Jose mine where 33 men await rescue.Hours after the drill bit into the ground, an engineer at the site predicted slow, but steady progress."We are hoping to have made about 15 metres and after that we can use the dire...

• 4-man NASA team to help rescue trapped Chilean miners

  Chile has sought US space agency NASA's help to provide nutritional and behavioral health support to 33 miners trapped inside a gold and silver mine since August 5.(Watch: NASA called-in to help trapped miners)       A four-person team, including two physicians and a psychologist, are planning to go to Chile next week,...

• NASA called in to help trapped Chile miners

  The miners trapped miles below the ground in Chile are getting to hear from their loved ones.Relatives spent the evening writing notes and sending them down a narrow tube that's been established there.The 33 miners are stuck deep below a mine that zig-zags under a barren mountain in the northern part of the country.They've been there since the mine...

• 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...

• 33 miners trapped in Chile signal 'we are safe'

  For 33 men found alive after 17 days trapped deep in a copper and gold mine, the toughest challenge now may be preserving their sanity during the months it may take to carve a tunnel big enough for them to get out.Chileans were euphoric on Sunday after a narrow drill broke through 2,257 feet (688 meters) of solid rock to reach an emergency refuge w...