Trapped Miners News

Xinjiang - While excavating a gallery, workers opened an abandoned mine and found a miner who had survived there since a collapse in 1997.

Soma - More than 150 miners are dead and hundreds more missing Tuesday after an explosion and fire crippled a coal mine in western Turkey.

Following a ceremony at the presidential palace Team "Operation Rescue" (the government) and Team "Hope" (the miners) played a friendly soccer game at Chile’s National Stadium. The Rescuers won 3-2, but the Miners had the Most Valuable Player.

Copiap - Florencio Ávalos would be the first worker to leave the site of the San José mine where he has been trapped for 69 days along with 32 other miners.

Santiago - Following a successful test of the rescue capsule, lifting of the 33 miners to the surface is expected to start at midnight tonight or perhaps even sooner. They have been trapped at the San José mine following a cave-in since August 5.

Rescuers are one step closer to reaching the 33 miners that are still trapped in a Chilean mine. Drills are cutting an escape shaft through the final section of rock this afternoon.

Santiago - A few of the miners that have remained trapped inside a copper and gold mine in northern Chile for almost a month may not be in a big rush to be rescued.

The 33 trapped Chilean miners may not receive any wages while they are trapped underground, a union official has claimed.

Santiago - The hopeful signs began early Sunday when the probing machine broke ground to a tunnel 688 feet deep. When the tip of the probe brought back evidence of life, excitement and emotion infected relatives, authorities and Chile as a whole.

Santiago - A message in a plastic bag written in red ink on a paper stuck to the end of the probe that carries out rescue operations brought extreme joy to the families of 33 miners trapped 17 days ago at the site of the San José mine in the Atacama Desert of Chile

Copiap - After 16 days of round-the-clock work, the most advanced of eight working drilling probes arrived this morning to an empty area 688 meters deep and 20 meters from the shelter where the 33 trapped miners may have found shelter.

Santiago - The relatives of the 33 miners trapped for nearly two weeks at a depth of about 700 meters inside a copper and gold mine in Chile were overwhelmed with dismay today after recent attempts failed to reach the site where they may have found refuge.

Santiago - Additional recent landslides within the San José mine in northern Chile are delaying access to the site, 300 meters underground, where 34 miners remain trapped since Thursday, risking the safety of rescuers and forcing to stop work.

Santiago - The collapse of a tunnel at a mine near the city of Copiapó, 834 miles north of Santiago, has left at least 34 workers trapped since last night without communication and information on their condition.

Beijing - For eight days, dozens of Chinese miners were trapped in a flood coal mine but rescue teams pulled out the 115 miners. Officials have called their survival "a miracle."

Unless there is evidence of life when the sixth borehole is completed on Saturday the miners trapped in Utah's Crandall Canyon will remain there. The mountain of death has proved too unstable to bring out remains.

As the families wait for word the final borehole has been drilling into the Crandall Canyon mine. The five other boreholes have not produced any sign of life for the trapped miners who were sealed into the mountain over two weeks ago on August 6.