The disaster began on a day shift around lunchtime at a mine in Chile's Atacama Desert: Miners working deep inside a mountain, excavating for copper, gold and other minerals, started feeling ...

Copiapo, Chile (CNN) -- The painstaking process of hoisting 33 miners trapped nearly a half-mile below ground for more than two months in northern Chile was completed Wednesday night, less than a ...

The last of the 33 miners trapped deep underground in northern Chile for more than two months is rescued, amid scenes of jubilation.

Rescuers Pull Last Trapped Chilean Miner To Surface. The last of the Chilean miners, the foreman who held them together when they were feared lost, was …

Rescuers Pull Last Trapped Chilean Miner To Surface. 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 ...

On October 13, 2010, the last of 33 miners trapped nearly half a mile underground for more than two months at a caved-in mine in northern Chile, are rescued. The miners survived longer than anyone ...

Franklin Lobos and Jorge Galeguillos were driving a Nissan pickup truck into the San Jose copper and gold mine near Copiapo, Chile, when the Earth shook.

The Chilean mine rescue has turned the spotlight onto a small Pennsylvania company that made the lifesaving drilling equipment.

Following the triumphant rescue of 33 miners trapped for 69 days beneath the Chilean desert, the country's authorities must now count the cost of the massive operation.

Oct. 13, 2010 -- Americans continue to marvel at the rescue of trapped Chilean miners entombed in the collapsed San Jose mine for over 10 weeks. The 33 men were trapped longer than any other ...

An American-manufactured Eager Beaver lowboy trailer played an important role in efforts to free 33 miners trapped on Aug. 5, 2010, by a rock fall in the San José mine, approximately 28 mi. (45 ...

Chilean Mine Rescue. May 7, 2012. Mincon is proud to be involved in establishing the initial lifeline to the thirty-three miners trapped 2,300 feet (701 meters) below ground in the San Jose gold and copper mine outside Copiapo, Chile. A hole 5-3/8″ (136mm) in diameter was drilled through on Monday August 23rd using the Mincon MX5053 reverse ...

India's 41 workers are trapped in the Uttarkashi tunnel. I'm writing about 33 miners who were trapped in a gold mine in Chile for over two months until being rescued on October 13, 2010. This article may be useful in inspiring and motivating lessons learned in rescue operations.

The first of three purpose-built rescue capsules arrives at the mine in Chile where 33 men have been trapped for more than seven weeks.

Leadership Lessons from the Chilean Mine Rescue. Summary. Three years ago, when a cave-in at the San José mine in Chile trapped 33 men under 700,000 metric tons of rock, experts estimated the ...

Chile's president says the country will never be the same again after the extraordinary rescue of the 33 miners trapped deep underground for 69 days.

10 years on – the Chilean miners rescue. October 13 th marks a decade since the end of the longest underground entrapment in history. A cave-in at the San Jose copper-gold mine in Copiapó left 33 miners trapped 2300 ft below ground, for 69 days. In a scene akin to Hollywood's Armageddon, the Chilean government enlisted a host of ...

Site where rescued miners will be pulled. Photo by Ariel Marinkovic/AFP/Getty Images Rescue workers burrowing toward Chilean miners trapped a half-mile below the surface could possibly reach the ...

Franklin Lobos and Jorge Galeguillos were driving a Nissan pickup truck into the San Jose copper and gold mine near Copiapo, Chile, when the Earth shook.

The Chilean mine rescue also offers a broader picture of global collaboration. Chile was supported with the help of the international community to save the miners.

The Natural History museum offers an inside look at the dramatic rescue of men trapped half a mile underground in a Chilean copper mine

Read CNN's Fast Facts about the 2010 rescue of 33 miners from a collapsed mine in the Atacama region of northern Chile.

Mining rescue plans depends on a variety of factors including whether the site involves an open-pit mine, above or underground rescue, metal/non-metal mines. The mining rescue equipment and solutions you use will be as unique as your own mine.

The Chilean rescue is thought to be the deepest-ever retrieval of trapped underground miners. At 69 days, it also represents the longest that trapped miners …

The extraordinary rescue in October 2010 of 33 miners trapped for more than two months after a partial collapse of the San José Mine in Chile is revisited in "Against All Odds: Rescue at the Chilean Mine," a multimedia exhibition opening at the National Museum of Natural History Aug. 5—one year to the day after the miners were …

Five years after their dramatic rescue, Chilean miners reflect on life, love and the Hollywood film that has been made about their plight.

Five years after the Chilean mine collapse, the spotlight on the miners has faded, leaving some struggling to adjust to regular life.

Some of the 33 miners who were trapped underground for two months began ascending to the surface, beginning the end of a rescue operation that has inspired the nation and riveted the world.

Jim Stefanic, operations manager of Chilean drilling company Geotec Boyles Bros., led the drillers who successfully bored and then widened the "plan B" rescue shaft that became the path to ...

How 'Teaming' Saved 33 Lives in the Chilean Mining Disaster. Teams composed of people from across expertise areas can create solutions beyond what any one agency can deliver, says Amy …