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Official says Wednesday rescue likely in Chile (AP)

October 9th, 2010

A man sounds a bell as news in celebration at the San Jose Mine near Copiapo, Chile Saturday, Oct. 9, 2010. A drilling rig punched through to the underground site where the 33 miners have been trapped for 66 days under the Chilean desert, raising cheers, tears and hopes. (AP Photo/Roberto Candia)AP - Chile’s mining minister said Saturday night that the 33 miners trapped for more than two months will probably be pulled out starting Wednesday.


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Chile sees ‘great day’ with escape shaft near done (AP)

October 8th, 2010

A relative of one of the 33 miners trapped lights a candle during a vigil outside the San Jose mine in Copiapo, Chile, Thursday, Oct. 7, 2010. The miners have been trapped deep underground in the copper and gold mine since it collapsed on Aug. 5. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)AP - Excitement grew Friday outside the mine where 33 men have been trapped for more than two months, as a drill carving an escape shaft pushed through the final…

Chile list says which miners should go first, last (AP)

October 7th, 2010

A view of the San Jose mine where drilling machines are working to rescue 33 trapped miners in Copiapo, Chile, Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2010. The miners have been trapped deep underground in the copper and gold mine since it collapsed on Aug. 5. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)AP - 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…

Chile mine engineers weigh risks of encasing shaft (AP)

October 7th, 2010

A helmet sits on a rock covered with the names of the 33 miners trapped in the collapsed San Jose mine at a camp where relatives wait for news outside the mine in Copiapo, Chile, Wednesday Oct. 6, 2010. Thirty-three miners have been trapped deep underground in the copper and gold mine since it collapsed on Aug. 5. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)AP - It’s the nightmare scenario: The earth shifts just as a miner is being pulled to safety, jamming his escape capsule somewhere between the surface and the underground cavern…

Chile president sees miners rescued before Oct. 15 (AP)

October 4th, 2010

A police officer and a child play with a soccer ball at the camp where relatives of trapped miners wait for news outside the San Jose in Copiapo, Chile, Sunday, Oct. 3, 2010. Thirty-three miners have been trapped deep underground in the copper and gold mine since it collapsed on Aug. 5. (AP Photo/Roberto Candia)AP - Chile’s president said Monday that his government is “very close” to pulling 33 trapped miners to safety and he hopes to be there in person to see the…

Bore hole for rescue reaches trapped Chile miners (AP)

September 17th, 2010

Workers operate a drill in the rescue effort for 33 miners trapped in the collapsed San Jose mine in Copiapo, Chile, Thursday, Sept. 16, 2010. Thirty-three miners have been trapped deep underground in the copper and gold mine since it collapsed on Aug. 5.  According to Mining Minister Laurence Golborne, the drill is being used in the government's plan B and expected to reach the depth of 550 meters (1,804 feet) on Friday. (AP Photo/Aliosha Marquez)AP - Rescuers achieved a key breakthrough in efforts to rescue 33 trapped miners on Friday, reaching the caverns where they are imprisoned with a bore hole that will now…

Chile mine disaster exposes old family feuds (AP)

September 5th, 2010

In this photos provided by Chile's government, trapped miner Claudio Yanez talks to his relatives during a video conference at the collapsed San Jose mine in Copiapo, Chile, Saturday, Sept. 4, 2010. Thirty-three miners have been trapped deep underground in the copper and gold mine since it collapsed on Aug. 5. (AP Photo/Chile's government)AP - While a fire warms their campsite, the icy feeling between Cristina Nunez Macias and her mother-in-law is as palpable as the cold Atacama desert.


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Chile miners must move tons of rocks in own rescue (AP)

August 29th, 2010

Chile's Mining Minister Laurence Golborne, center, holds a pipe used to communicate with 33 miners trapped alive in the collapsed San Jose mine in Copiapo, Chile, Sunday Aug. 29, 2010. The trapped miners half mile underground will have to aid their own escape clearing tons of rock that will fall as the rescue hole is drilled, the engineer in charge of drilling said Sunday.  (AP Photo/Roberto Candia)AP - The 33 trapped Chilean miners who have astonished the world with their discipline a half mile underground will have to aid their own escape — clearing thousands of…

Chile, divided by quake, unites around miners (AP)

August 28th, 2010

Relatives of trapped miners Renan and Florencio Avalo raise a tattered Chilean flag on a hill overlooking the camp where the families of 33 trapped miners wait outside the collapsed San Jose mine in Copiapo, Chile, Saturday Aug. 28, 2010. This flag was transformed into a symbol of resilience in Chile when an earthquake survivor was photographed pulling it from the wreckage of the Feb. 27 earthquake and tsunami.  (AP Photo/Roberto Candia)AP - Just six months ago, one of the largest earthquakes in a century tore Chile apart, physically ripping the ground, triggering a deadly tsunami and leaving in the wreckage…

Chile faces unique challenge in maintaining miners (AP)

August 26th, 2010

Women light candles next to Chilean flags representing trapped 33 miners outside the San Jose mine in Copiapo, Chile, Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2010. The miners, who have been trapped since the shaft they were working in collapsed on Aug. 5, were confirmed to be alive Sunday when they were reached by rescue teams via a hole through which they could pass messages, supplies, air, and see the miners with a camera. (AP Photo/Roberto Candia)AP - In less than a week the 33 miners trapped under Chile’s Atacama Desert will have been stuck underground longer than any others in memory â?? taxing authorities Thursday…