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A way out, at last, for Chile’s 33 trapped miners (AP)

An illuminated balloon hovers over the camp were relatives of a trapped miners wait for news of the rescue effort near the San Jose mine in Copiapo, Chile, Friday Oct. 8, 2010. Drillers neared the lower reaches of a gold and copper mine where 33 men have been trapped for more than two months, preparing Friday for a breakthrough. The mine collapsed on Aug. 5. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)AP - Sixty-six agonizing days after their gold and copper mine collapsed above them, 33 miners anxiously awaited a way out early Saturday as a drill carved into the last layers of rock above their underground purgatory.


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