Chile Mine Collapse

Singer-actress Jennifer Lopez is the latest addition to the cast of The 33, a film based on the story of survival of the miners trapped for more than two months after a mine collapse in northern Chile.

Some 31 miners who endured 69 days trapped underground when a northern Chile mine collapsed are suing the government for negligence saying there was lack of security, one of them said.

Two months, nine days, and eight hours after their excruciating ordeal began, the last of the 33 miners trapped a half-mile underground in Chile was delivered safely to the earth's surface, capping perhaps the most dramatic survival story in mining history. (Pics)With the entire nation rapt and much of the world riveted, the last miner, Luis Urzua,...

A 31-ton drill is boring a "pilot" hole from the floor of Chile's Atacama Desert down 2,200 feet (700 metres) to the area in the San Jose mine where 33 men await rescue.Hours after the drill bit into the ground, an engineer at the site predicted slow, but steady progress."We are hoping to have made about 15 metres and after that we can use the dire...

Thirty-three Chilean miners trapped nearly half a mile underground and facing perhaps four months before rescue are now receiving food, water and oxygen from above ground.Through a newly installed communications system, each of the men spoke and reported feeling hungry but well.Sergio Aguila, a doctor on the rescue team, said the miners had sustain...

Singer-actress Jennifer Lopez is the latest addition to the cast of The 33, a film based on the story of survival of the miners trapped for more than two months after a mine collapse in northern Chile.

Some 31 miners who endured 69 days trapped underground when a northern Chile mine collapsed are suing the government for negligence saying there was lack of security, one of them said.

Two months, nine days, and eight hours after their excruciating ordeal began, the last of the 33 miners trapped a half-mile underground in Chile was delivered safely to the earth's surface, capping perhaps the most dramatic survival story in mining history. (Pics)With the entire nation rapt and much of the world riveted, the last miner, Luis Urzua,...

A 31-ton drill is boring a "pilot" hole from the floor of Chile's Atacama Desert down 2,200 feet (700 metres) to the area in the San Jose mine where 33 men await rescue.Hours after the drill bit into the ground, an engineer at the site predicted slow, but steady progress."We are hoping to have made about 15 metres and after that we can use the dire...

Thirty-three Chilean miners trapped nearly half a mile underground and facing perhaps four months before rescue are now receiving food, water and oxygen from above ground.Through a newly installed communications system, each of the men spoke and reported feeling hungry but well.Sergio Aguila, a doctor on the rescue team, said the miners had sustain...