Hungary fears 2nd reservoir breach
Source: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Copiapó :: Chile | updated 2010-12-14 16:50:20 -0800 | political-news
Rescue workers have finished drilling an escape shaft for Chile's 33 trapped miners, offering them a way out of their underground cavern, where they have remained trapped for two months. A town is Hungary is evacuated as fears grow that...
Chile miners to get sunglasses for protection from UV rays
Source: India Abroad
Copiapó :: Chile | updated 2010-12-11 21:46:18 -0800 | political-news
On August 5, the roof of the Copiapo copper-gold mine collapsed, leaving 33 miners trapped at approximately 700 metres underground. According to The Telegraph , Oakley, the American-based eyewear giant, will be providing sunglasses to the miners so that their...
Chilean miners could be reached on Saturday
Posted by: Sanjay Prajapati
Santiago :: Chile | updated 2012-04-01 20:36:36 -0700 | travel-news
One of the three axes that are drilling down to the 33 men trapped in a mine in Chile will arrive on Saturday, the mining minister said. Laurence Golborne said the T-130 drill, known as "plan B" was carved and...
National Geographic: Death from Above
Posted by: ManAbroad
Santiago :: Chile | updated 2011-08-05 03:39:06 -0700 | travel-news
Like every place on Earth, there are fucking pigeons all over Santiago like a dirty street rash. Outside my bedroom from my personal balcony, there is a tree with weird little potato thingos on it. Soon after moving in I...
Rescue milestone for Chile miners
Source: The Age
San Jose :: CA :: USA | updated 2010-11-16 22:15:12 -0800 | political-news
Thursday on the looming metal structure, equal in height to a 15-storey building...Disassembled components for the drill arrived last week, transported here on dozens of flatbed trucks from Iquique, a coastal town about 1000km away. The oil platform will be...
Trapped miners to get help from NASA
Source: CNN
Santiago :: Chile | updated 2010-11-08 18:44:59 -0800 | political-news
The team includes two medical doctors, a psychologist and an engineer. In a briefing after its arrival last week, the team said creating a strict organizational structure for the miners' daily lives would be important. Duncan also noted that healthy...
Trapped Chilean miners speak to their families by phone
Source: Guardian Unlimited
Copiapó :: Chile | updated 2010-10-31 02:49:30 -0700 | political-news
Ariel Marinkovic/AFP The 33 Chilean miners trapped deep underground have spoken for the first time to family members waiting for them on the surface. The brief phone conversations late yesterday brought a measure of reassurance to families who have grown...
NASA to Aid Trapped Chilean Miners
Source: Voice of America
Santiago :: Chile | updated 2010-11-01 17:38:29 -0700 | political-news
The miners have been trapped in a gold and copper mine in Chile's remote north since a cave-in on August 5th. But it was not until a week ago that they were found alive. There are concerns that some of...
'Problems' among trapped Chile miners: report
Source: Sydney Morning Herald
Copiapó :: Chile | updated 2010-10-30 22:05:14 -0700 | political-news
CNN said Chilean Health Minister Jaime Manalich had told it "three or four of the men do have some problems" after enduring three weeks stuck underground following a shaft collapse. "They're not sleeping at night, they're becoming increasingly anxious and...
July 11, 2010 total solar eclipse
Posted by: katrina1996
Concepción :: Chile | updated 2011-03-23 18:55:35 -0700 | travel-news
There are three Eclipses predicted to happen in 2010. The third eclipse is said to be a total solar eclipse Today Sunday, July 11, 2010. If you don’t know what a solar eclipse is, a solar eclipse is when the...
STONE GIANTS-THE MAOI OF EASTER ISLAND
Posted by: anonymous
Santiago :: Chile | updated 2012-05-09 23:05:22 -0700 | travel-news
The Maoi are human heads on torsos carved in the male form from rough hardened volcanic ash, they were carved, transported and erected between the years of AD1400 and 1600.They are found on the Polynesian island of Easter island. The...
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