miners

Following in the footsteps of many other celebrities, the miners who spent more than two months trapped underground in a Chilean mine are "going to Disney World." "The amazing story of these miners captured the attention of the world for demonstrating the true power and resilience of the human...

http://cnn.com/video/?/video/world/2010/11/22/sot.china.mine.rescue.cnn Beijing, China -- Twenty-nine miners trapped in a flooded mine in China were rescued after more than 30 hours, with crews lifting them out in rapid succession, state television reported Monday. The miners emerged from...

Quito, Ecuador -- The two remaining miners trapped underground in Ecuador since part of a mine collapsed last week have been found dead, the mine's president said Wednesday. Four miners were trapped in the mine collapse, and authorities had earlier found two of them dead. Angel Vera and Pedro...

Rescue workers in Ecuador believe they are closing in on two of the four miners who were trapped underground after a part of a mine collapsed last week, the state news agency reported Tuesday. Authorities have found two of the four dead. The fate of the others is unknown. "We're close to the...

The final death toll from a coal mine gas leak in central China's Henan Province has risen to 37 after bodies of the last five miners trapped underground were found, rescuers said Tuesday, according to China's state-run Xinhua news agency. More than 2,500 metric tons of coal dust smothered the...

London, England -- Sporting a burnished image after the rescue of 33 trapped miners, Chilean President Sebastian Pinera is arriving in England on Saturday. He is scheduled to meet with British Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday. Cameron spoke with Pinera earlier in the week after all 33...

The death toll from a coal mine gas leak in central China rose to 30 Monday after rescue workers discovered four more bodies, state media said Monday. Seven others remain trapped underground, but their chances of survival are slim, rescue crews fear. More than 2,500 metric tons of coal dust...

COPIAPO, Chile - Chile's rescued miners arrived home as heroes Friday after a 69-day ordeal deep underground during which they drank oil-contaminated water and set off explosives in a desperate bid to alert rescuers. All but two of the 33 men left the hospital, returning to neighbors' cheers...

The bodies of two of four miners believed trapped in a collapsed mine in southern Ecuador have been found, officials said Saturday. Paul Aguirre and Walter Vera, chief of the mine, both died, according to El Ciudadano, Ecuador's government-run news service. Vera is the brother of Angel Vera...

Copiapo, Chile -- Richard Villaroel holds up a red plastic bottle cap no bigger around than two of his fingers. Three-quarters full of canned tuna or salmon -- that's how little he ate every day in the Chilean mine that caved. And the mine water he drank tasted like machine oil. In the dark...

Rescue workers searched Friday for four miners believed trapped in a collapsed mine in southern Ecuador, a government official said. The miners have been trapped since about 3 a.m., said Jorge Espinosa, the under-secretary of mining development at Ecuador's Ministry of Nonrenewable Natural...

Cheering "Viva Chile," workers early Monday completed the installation of steel tubing to reinforce the path that will be used to bring 33 trapped miners to the surface. Copiapo, Chile -- Cheering "Viva Chile," workers early Monday completed the installation of steel tubing to reinforce the...

Copiapo, Chile -- The first of the 33 miners trapped underground for more than two months could be hoisted to safety as early as Wednesday, Chilean Mining Minister Laurence Golborne said Saturday. He spoke hours after anxious family members and exhausted rescue workers reveled in joyful relief...

Mine probe focuses on ventilation WASHINGTON, (UPI) -- Federal investigators say they've targeted methane detectors and a ventilation plan in an investigation of the explosion that killed 29 miners in West Virginia. The FBI has been asking miners whether a supervisor at the Upper Big Branch...

Two mine blasts kill, trap Serbian miners MOSCOW, (UPI) -- At least a dozen miners are confirmed dead following two methane gas explosions in a coal mine western Siberia, local emergency officials said Sunday. Sixty-four workers were trapped by the first blast Saturday and 19 rescue workers...

JOHANNESBURG (AFP) – An underground fire at a mine at Velkom, in the northeast of South Africa, has killed 36 people who appeared to have been illegally mining for gold, miners union officials said Monday. "Thirty-six died in the fire under the ground. It looks that they were illegal miners. It...