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Reuters
| over 2 years ago
A frame grab shows the drill bit of the T-130 drilling machine after digging a 12-inch guide hole to a garage next to the refuge where 33 miners are trapped deep underground inside a copper and gold mine near Copiapo September 17, 2010...The first of...
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Voice of America
| over 2 years ago
Articles Rescuers in Chile have achieved a breakthrough in efforts to rescue 33 miners trapped underground, reaching them with a bore hole that now must be widened to bring them out safely. Engineers say a drilling machine has broken through to a...
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SF Gate
| over 2 years ago
Aliosha Marquez Alvear / AP Two policemen walk next to the drill that is being used in the rescue operation of thirty-three miners trapped at the San Jose mine in Copiapo, Chile, Friday, Sept. 17, 2010. Rescuers achieved a key breakthrough in efforts...
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ITN
| over 2 years ago
The breakthrough means the miners, who rescuers have been trying to extract before Christmas, might now be raised to the surface by early November. The miners will be helping their own cause by clearing away the debris that falls into the mine as the...
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United Press International
| over 2 years ago
Chilean officials said a rescue hole was drilled to reach the 33 miners trapped by an Aug. 5 collapse, but rescue operations are still expected to take weeks. Officials said rescuers finished drilling the 2,060-foot hole to reach the 32 Chileans and...
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The New York Times
| over 2 years ago
The first of three rescue drills on Friday reached 33 Chilean miners trapped for six weeks half a mile (0.80 kilometre) underground, but it will still take weeks to widen the shaft enough to extract the men. The miners will be helping their own cause...
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The Age
| over 2 years ago
The work still required to extract the miners was to take at least another six weeks, according to officials' estimates. The government official, speaking to AFP on condition of anonymity, said a T-130 drilling machine had broken through to a work...
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Al Jazeera
| over 2 years ago
Rescue workers in Chile have drilled a hole 630 metres through the ground to reach the spot where 33 miners have been trapped since early August...However it will now have to be widened in order to bring the men out safely, according to authorities.
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BBC
| over 2 years ago
Drill reaches trapped men in Chile mine The rescue operation is still expected to take several weeks A drill has now reached the 33 Chilean miners trapped since 5 August, officials have said. However, it will take weeks for the 630m (2,060ft) deep...
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Seattle Times
| over 2 years ago
Chile Chile's government says a bore hole for an eventual rescue has reached 33 trapped miners. Atacama region Gov. Ximena Matas says the T130 probe has reached the cavern where the miners have been trapped since Aug. 5. Officials plan now to widen...
