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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.
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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,"...
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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...
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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,...
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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 ...
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Chile miners trapped underground for a month now
The families of 33 Chilean miners trapped underground, after a shaft collapsed at the mine in Copiapo, where they were working marked the one month anniversary of their ordeal on Sunday. On August 5, a landslide at the gold and copper mine in the Atacama desert caused a tunnel to collapse and entombed the men more than 2,200 feet (67.6 metres) belo...
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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,"...
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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...
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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,...
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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 ...
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Chile miners trapped underground for a month now
The families of 33 Chilean miners trapped underground, after a shaft collapsed at the mine in Copiapo, where they were working marked the one month anniversary of their ordeal on Sunday. On August 5, a landslide at the gold and copper mine in the Atacama desert caused a tunnel to collapse and entombed the men more than 2,200 feet (67.6 metres) belo...
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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...
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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...
