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First Chilean Miner Expected to Surface Tonight

(Oct. 12) -- Chilean rescuers are just hours away from hoisting the first miner up back to safety, officials say. "We hope to finish the day with at least one miner on the surface," Chilean Mining Minister Laurence Golborne told CNN this afternoon. Rescue teams have been working nonstop to make final preparations for a...

Wife of Trapped Chilean Miner Gives Birth to 'Hope'

(Sept. 15) -- One of the 33 Chilean miners trapped underground for 40 days has become a father to a girl named Hope. Elizabeth Segovia, wife of trapped miner Ariel Ticona, gave birth Tuesday to a healthy baby girl. The couple had planned to name her Carolina, but decided to change her name to Esperanza, the Spanish word...

Rescuers Begin Drilling to Free Chilean Miners

(Aug. 31) -- Engineers in Chile have begun work on a rescue shaft to free 33 men stuck in a mine thousands of feet beneath the Atacama Desert. A massive, 31-ton drill began to bore into the earth early Tuesday morning, three weeks after a landslide trapped the men inside the San Jose copper and gold mine Aug. 5 in...

Background on copiapo

Copiapó () is a city in northern Chile, located about 40 miles east of the coastal town of Caldera. Founded on December 8, 1744, it is the capital of Copiapó Province and Atacama Region.

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