They're All Out: 33 Miners Raised Safely In Chile

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Minister says Wednesday rescue likely in Chile

By MICHAEL WARREN (AP) ? 2 hours ago

SAN JOSE MINE, Chile ? Chile's mining minister said Saturday night that the 33 miners trapped for more than two months will probably be pulled out starting Wednesday.

That's because the rescue team has decided to reinforce less than 315 feet (96 meters) of the rescue shaft in steel pipe.

The rest of the escape shaft is exposed rock, and the rescue team has decided it's strong enough to provide for a smooth ride for the miners' escape capsule.

Mining Minister Laurence Golborne set the date after the shaft was inspected with a video camera Saturday following the completion of the hole earlier in the day ? a success that set off celebrations by the miners underground and by their families and rescue workers on the surface.

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Driller from Denver becomes Chile mine rescue hero

MICHAEL WARREN, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: October 09, 2010 6:34 p.m.
Last modified: October 09, 2010 6:37 p.m.





SAN JOSE MINE, Chile - Jeff Hart was drilling water wells for the U.S. Army's forward operating bases in Afghanistan when he got the call to fly to Chile.

He spent the next 33 days on his feet, operating the drill that finally provided a way out Saturday for 33 trapped miners.

"You have to feel through your feet what the drill is doing; it's a vibration you get so that you know what's happening," explained Hart, a contractor from Denver, Colorado.

A muscular, taciturn man with calloused hands and a sunburned face, Hart normally pounds rock for oil or water.

He's used to extreme conditions while he works the hydraulic levers that guide the drills' hammers.

But this was something different ? 33 lives were depending on him...

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http://www.metronews.ca/ottawa/world/article/658464--driller-from-denver-becomes-chile-mine-rescue-hero

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Workers reinforce rescue tunnel for Chilean miners

By Jonathan Franklin
Sunday, October 10, 2010; 9:08 PM


SAN JOSE MINE, CHILE - Rescue workers on Sunday rushed to reinforce an escape tunnel that will be used to free 33 trapped miners in Chile. If all goes according to plan, the first miner is expected to be lifted to safety early Wednesday morning, more than two months after the accident that left the men sealed off from the world above.
Sixteen steel tubes are being inserted into the top of the nearly 700-yard-deep shaft in an effort to prevent the rock walls from crumbling in and blocking the escape route.

Using video cameras, officials with the Chilean government-led rescue operation continued to analyze the entire length of the shaft Sunday. Those videos have also been viewed by a team of eight geologists. Thus far, the geologists have determined that much of the tunnel is solid rock, meaning there is a relatively low chance of it caving in. Given the numerous curves in the tunnel, however, officials are worried that the capsule may become struck in the lower sections of the shaft.

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The 33 trapped miners: Top row (left to right): Alex Vega Salazar, Ariel Ticona Yanez, Carlos Bugueno Alfaro, Calros Barrios Contreras, Carlos Mamani Solis, Claudio Acuna Cortes, Claudio Yanez Lagos, Daniel Herrera Campos, Dario Segovia Rojas, Edison Penaa Villarroel, Esteban Rojas Carrizo. Second row: Florencio Avalos Silva, Franklin Lobos Ramirez, Jimmy Sanchez Lagues, Jorge Galleguillos, Jose Ojeda Vidal, Jose Henriquez Gonzalez, Juan Illanes Palma, Juan Aguilar Gaete, Luis Alberto Urzua, Mario Gomez Heredia and Mario Seplveda Espina. Third row: Omar Orlando Reygada Rojas, Osman Isidro Araya Acuna, Pablo Amadeos Rojas Villacorta, Pedro Cortez, Raul Enriquez Bustos Ibanez, Renan Avalos Silva, Richard Villarroel Godoy, Samuel Avalos Acuna, Victor Segovia Rojas, Victor Zamora Bugueno, Yonny Barrios Rojas

More photos here:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2010/aug/26/chile-miners-trapped-rescue#/?picture=366145877&index=8

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Final countdown: Rescue workers will start to evacuate Chile's trapped miners around midnight on Tuesday local time

Final countdown: Chile reveals when miners will be freed

Psychologist: Victims will feel besieged, overwhelmed by even attention of own families


SAN JOSE MINE, Chile — Rescue workers will start to evacuate Chile's trapped miners around midnight on Tuesday local time following a few more tests and once a winch system is in place, Mining Minister Laurence Golborne announced Monday.
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Four rescuers — two mining engineers and two paramedics — will descend in a capsule, briefing the men and carrying out final medical checks. The miners, who have set a world record for the length of time workers have survived underground after a mining accident, have been doing exercises to keep their weight down to fit in capsules just wider than a man's shoulders.

The three rescue capsules are 13 feet tall and weigh more than 1,000 pounds. Each comes equipped with harness, oxygen and headset for continuous communication with the surface. The ascent, which could take 20-45 minutes for each miner, will be monitored by audio and video equipment inside the capsule. The capsules are expected to rotate 360 degrees some 10 to 12 times through curves in the 28-inch-wide escape hole on its way up

The miner judged most psychologically stable and experienced will be the first to ascend, given the possibility the capsule could become trapped during the escape. The weakest and sickest men will follow.

Upon arriving at the surface, the men will be given dark glasses to protect their eyes. They will then be taken by doctors and paramedics to a critical care and stabilization unit erected at the mine entrance. If they are found to be healthy, they will be taken to another tent to visit with family members.

The field hospital doesn't have the capacity for all 33 miners to gather at the surface until the last is extracted — as they requested — so the men will be flown by helicopter in groups of four to a hospital in nearby Copiapo, where they will remain for at least 48 hours.
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Chile's trapped miners finally set to escape

Chile's trapped miners finally set to escape

By Cesar Illiano and Terry Wade
COPIAPO, Chile | Tue Oct 12, 2010 4:43pm BST

COPIAPO, Chile (Reuters) - The first of Chile's 33 trapped miners are set to travel nearly half a mile through solid rock in a shaft just wider than a man's shoulders on Tuesday, as their two month ordeal after a cave-in draws to an end.

Nervous anticipation grew among the miners' relatives and friends as Mining Minister Laurence Golborne said rescuers aimed to start hoisting the miners from 6 p.m. (2100 GMT), hours ahead of schedule.

The men have spent 68 days in the hot, humid bowels of a gold and copper mine in Chile's northern Atacama desert after an August 5 collapse, and now face a harrowingly claustrophobic journey to the surface in specially-made capsules.

Wives, children, parents and friends are waiting on an arid, rocky hillside around 2,050 feet (625 metres) directly above them at a tent settlement dubbed "Camp Hope."

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Full text and video: http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE6980F120101012


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Video: Chile Trapped Miners Rescue Live Streaming TV Coverage

Below is live streaming video coverage of the rescue of the trapped miners in Chile, the live stream below is from CBS.


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Rescate de los mineros chilenos EN VIVO en este momento <hr style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);" size="1"> http://www.ustream.tv/channel/televi...ilena---chile1

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Hope, faith sustain miners in Chile after months below

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(CNN) -- A hero's welcome awaits them when they get to the top, not because they did anything markedly noble -- besides defy odds -- but because they showed us there is hope even when the worst seems certain.

By this time Wednesday, the historic moment should be long under way. After 69 days beneath the earth, the last of the 33 miners trapped in the San Jose gold and copper mine in Chile should be preparing for their ascent to freedom.

Their survival, many will say, was born of the strength, patience and resilience God instilled in them.

Already, there have been myriad times a higher power was more than a mere specter or matter of faith to the men. Crammed like the canned fish that first sustained them into a space the size of a Manhattan studio apartment, they have expressed a oneness with the Holy Spirit that resonates with Chileans, 87 percent of whom are Christian.

"We 33 miners are walking hand in hand with God," miner Mario Sepulveda reported on August 31, about 26 days after the mine collapsed and nine days after the world first learned they were alive.

Another 42 days have passed since that profession of faith. Each day has doubtless required similar, sustaining thoughts.

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Gracias!

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Chilean miners rescue ? live coverage

? Eleven of the 33 trapped Chilean miners rescued
? President Pi?era hails operation as example to the world
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1.42pm (9.42am Chile): Morales is giving the Phoenix capsule a close look. When he goes back to Bolivia, he will take the Bolivian miner, Carlos Mamani, with him. Morales clearly wants some of the political gold dust from the rescue as well. Morales, accompanied by his Chilean counterpart, is meeting some of the relatives amid much laughter.
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1.30pm (9.30am Chile): Jorge Galleguillos Orellana is the 11th miner to be rescued. He hugs family members - no ex-wife though. Meanwhile, the eagle has landed. Morales is now at the mine wearing one of his trademark jumpers.
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1.26pm (9.26am Chile): More on Morales, the Bolivian president, from La Tercera:

"These deeds bind us together, they strengthen us," said the Bolivian president, who described the rescue effort as "impressive" and "historic". He added: "Bolivia will never forget the efforts of the Chilean government, of President [Pi?era] and of the Chilean people ? I can't believe it." The Bolivian president, who was met at Copiap?'s small airport by the Chilean foreign minister, Alfredo Moreno, also said he thought the mine would one day become a "historic place" and a tourist destination.

<!-- Block 24 -->1.24pm (9.24am Chile): Jorge Galleguillos Orellana will be the 11th man making the 45-minute, 600-odd metre trip. Separated from his wife a few years ago, he had gone to live in Tierra Amarillo, where his sisters live. The 56-year-old takes medication for high blood pressure and complained about feeling unwell in a video.


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They're All Out: 33 Miners Raised Safely In Chile

They're All Out: 33 Miners Raised Safely In Chile

by The Associated Press
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SAN JOSE MINE, Chile October 13, 2010, 10:23 pm ET

The last of the Chilean miners, the foreman who held them together when they were feared lost, was raised from the depths of the earth Wednesday night — a joyous ending to a 69-day ordeal that riveted the world. No one has ever been trapped so long and survived.

Luis Urzua ascended smoothly through 2,000 feet of rock, completing a 22 1/2-hour rescue operation that unfolded with remarkable speed and flawless execution. Before a jubilant crowd of about 2,000 people, he became the 33rd miner to be rescued.

"We have done what the entire world was waiting for," he told Chilean President Sebastian Pinera immediately after his rescue. "The 70 days that we fought so hard were not in vain. We had strength, we had spirit, we wanted to fight, we wanted to fight for our families, and that was the greatest thing."

The president told him: "You are not the same, and the country is not the same after this. You were an inspiration. Go hug your wife and your daughter." With Urzua by his side, he led the crowd in singing the national anthem.

The rescue exceeded expectations every step of the way. Officials first said it might be four months before they could get the men out; it turned out to be 69 days and about 8 hours...

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NASA Provides Assistance to Trapped Chilean Miners
10.13.10


<!--Promo date and doctitle ends-->The San Jos&#233; mine lies north of Copiap&#243;, Chile, in the world’s driest desert, the Atacama. The Advanced Land Imager (ALI) on NASA’s Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) captured this natural-color image of the mine and its surroundings on September 16, 2010. The mine complex appears as an uneven patch of gray in the midst of camel-colored hills devoid of vegetation.
Image Credit: NASA/EO-1 ALI

Earth, as seen in the Blue Marble: Next Generation collection of images, showing the color of the planet's surface in high resolution. This image shows South America from September 2004.
Image Credit: NASA After 69 days underground, all 33 miners trapped since Aug. 5 in Chile's San Jos&#233; copper and gold mine are safely above ground. Chilean rescue workers pulled the final miner to safety around 9 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, Oct. 13, wrapping up the rescue process started the night before.

As part of the rescue operation, NASA offered expert advice on medical, nutritional and behavioral health issues. The NASA team also provided suggestions regarding the rescue cages that were specially-designed to pull the trapped miners out of the shaft that was dug over 2,000 feet into the Earth.

“The Chileans had a very limited set of requirements that they had given their own engineers with regards to how to design this cage, and that was primarily length, diameter, and weight,” said Dr. Michael Duncan, who led the team of NASA experts who traveled to Chile. NASA’s work in spacecraft design provided expertise with respect to medical requirements and design requirements. “We were able to provide them [Chilean engineers designing the rescue cages] with some thoughts,” continued Duncan.” Looking at the video of the cage, some of these things they’ve certainly incorporated into their design.”

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden issued a statement offering the thoughts and prayers of the NASA Family, adding, "I am proud of the people of this agency who were able to bring the experience of spaceflight down to Earth when it was needed most."

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The NASA team includes two medical doctors, a psychologist and an engineer. Dr. Michael Duncan, deputy chief medical officer in NASA's Space Life Sciences Directorate at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, led the team. The other team members are physician J.D. Polk, psychologist Al Holland and engineer Clint Cragg.

NASA's long experience in training and planning for emergencies in human spaceflight and its protection of humans in the hostile environment of space may have some direct benefits that can be useful to the rescue. Environments may very well be different, but human response both in physiology and behavioral responses to emergencies is quite similar. Some of the results acquired through NASA's research may be applicable to the trapped miners.



Dr. Michael Duncan talks about NASA's assistance.

http://www.nasa.gov/news/chile_assistance.html

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Astronaut Doug Wheelock aboard the International Space Station shares his thoughts on the rescue.


http://www.nasa.gov/news/chile_assistance.html




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[sharon sanders]

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All of the miners I saw on the videos seemed to be very well. The people responsible for keeping the miners healthy and sane for the duration of their imprisonment should receive accolades for their work.

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It ' s a wonderful news..