Copiapo, Chile – 33 miners trapped half a mile underground for 69 days, when a part of the mine collapsed, and for 17 days they had feared, were stored in a 24-hour, 20 million U.S. dollars bail and were hailed as national heroes – setting the new world record for the longest time survived underground after a mine accident.
Photo: The last miner to be rescued, Luis Urzua, center, throws a poor Chilean President Sebastian Pinera, right, looks after his rescue of the collapsed mine. Photo by: Alex Ibañez, Chile’s presidential elections Press.
The bailout, which is probably the toughest of its kind in human history, led by Chilean President Sebastian Pinera, who mobilized national resources, earned a high rating and admiration because they demonstrated team spirit and efficiency and resulted in a complete success. Read more
Some of the Chilean miners and their loved ones back to the site of their dramatic rescue on Sunday for a religious service at the mouth of the copper and gold mine where they were detained for 69 days.
Among the first to come to Sunday was Juan Carlos Aguilar and his young daughter, who spent a few moments walking around the area that was almost a tomb for employees after a collapse of the deep subsurface.
The long rescue operation and the outpouring of emotion captured the attention of the world, and the dramatic finale was broadcast live on many networks around the world on Wednesday. Read more
Rescue workers at the San Jose gold and copper mine in northern Chile this week had reason to sing. A small hole drilled into the earth was a passage to freedom of thirty-three trapped miners. She spent nine sixty days underground. “Never have people imprisoned for as long as deep,” said a doctor at NASA, the U.S. space agency, which helped in the rescue.
But the chief medical officer for the miners said that most are in good enough health to leave the hospital within a day or so. The first three were discharged from hospital Thursday evening.
For much of the day the miners relax with Chilean President Sebastian Pinera. The thirty-two Chileans and a Bolivian still wore special sunglasses to protect their eyes. Read more
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The 33 miners buried for nearly half a mile below the Chilean desert yesterday cheered and hugged as a drilling rig and reached their underground prison.
The breakthrough came just after 8 hours, as the fog slowly lifted Camp Hope, the tented settlement at San Jose copper and gold mine, where family and the world media are waiting for the trapped men free.
The miners underground survived longer than anyone else in history, responded with cheers in a live video link and the tip of the hammer drill broke through the roof of their underground workshop. “We can see the nose,” cried a miner. “It is through, it is.” Read more
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SANTIAGO, Chile – Chile the 33 trapped miners have something to think about: their next job. Bulldozer driver, mechanic, electrician. And here she can find some particularly useful: “risk reduction specialist” and “escape tunnel borer.”
Two dozen companies with operations in Chile, more than 1,000 jobs created, the trapped miners and their employees in an offside 317 job fair this week. Even if they choose to go back to the mining, the work will not necessarily be underground and will almost certainly be a company with a better safety than their current employer wrestling.
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BP PLC plans to interest the oil leaking from the recovering well in the Gulf of Mexico after collection was halted yesterday. BP has the ability to recover between 26,000 and 28,000 barrels of oil barrels per day, Robert Wine, a company spokesman, said today. The company recovered 21,040 barrels yesterday after the Discoverer Enterprise drillship stopped capturing oil for 10 hours due to an equipment problem and thunderstorms. (more…)
Gold, little changed in Asian trade may decline as signs that the global economic recovery, root rekening SAP investor demand for the metal as a store of value. Gold for immediate delivery lost $ 1.11, or 0.1 percent, to $ 1,211.23 an ounce at 12:47 pm in Tokyo. Singapore government today raised the forecast for the year to economic growth as much as 15 percent, while Intel Corp., the largest chipmaker, yesterday a record turnover in the second quarter. (more…)
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