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2 Chilean Miners Killed in Blast Near San Jose Mine

(Nov. 9) -- Two miners are dead and another is injured following an explosion in the same desert area of Chile where 33 miners spent 69 days trapped underground. The blast occurred Monday at the Los Reyes gold mine, about 30 miles from Copiapo and the San Jose mine, CNN reported. The news agency said investigators think...

Chilean Miner Plans to Run in NYC Marathon

NEW YORK (Nov. 1) - The Chilean miner who jogged in the tunnels while trapped underground not only will attend Sunday's New York City Marathon - he wants to run it. Martin Mejia, AP Edison Pena cries during an Oct. 19 honoring the rescued miners in Caldera, Chile. Marathon officials had invited Edison Pena to watch the...

Straight-Talking Engineer Behind Chile Mine Rescue

SAN JOSE MINE, Chile (Oct. 15) -- Three days after 33 men were sealed deep within a gold mine, Andre Sougarret was summoned by Chile's president. The Chilean leader got right to the point: The square-jawed, straight-talking engineer would be in charge of digging them out. At first Sougarret worried - no one knew if the...

Happy, Exhausted Miners Face New Challenges

(Oct. 14) -- As the 33 Chilean miners rescued this week reunite with loved ones and gulp fresh air for the first time in 69 days, attention is turning to how these lucky survivors will handle their new status as folk heroes. There's also the question of what will happen to Camp Hope, the cluster of tents in the Atacama...

Chile Mine Rescue Revives 'Baby Jessica' Jokes on Twitter

(Oct. 13) -- Thirty-three Chilean men walk into a mine ... With the precarious, one-by-one rescue of the 33 trapped Chilean miners still under way, the world continues to eagerly watch and await the news on their health and safety. That said, some users of the Web's notoriously snarky social network Twitter have reacted...

Background on chile mine

The 2010 Copiapó mining accident, also known as the "Chilean mining accident", began in the afternoon of Thursday, 5 August 2010 as a significant cave-in at the troubled 121-year-old San José copper–gold mine.

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