copper mines and mining

On the morning of August 5, 2010, thirty-three men gathered at the entrance to the San Jose copper mine outside Copiapo, Chili for a twelve-hour shift. When a giant section of the mine collapsed, thirty-three men headed for the safety shelter---a 540-square-foot room stocked with enough food and liquid to last a group of ten men forty-eight hours. For the next seventeen days engineers drilled to get to the safety shelter to see if anyone had survived. But this was only the beginning and for a total of sixty-nine days all thirty-three men lived inside the shelter as rescuers fought to find a way to free them and bring them to the surface.

Details the rescue of thirty-three miners in a mine in the Atacama Desert in Chile, describing how they were trapped, how they survived, the plans to save them, and more.

Chronicles the 2010 San Jos? Mine Accident, in which thirty-three miners became trapped for weeks in a mine in Chile's Atacama Desert. Discusses how these men survived their ordeal and spotlights the international response to these men's plight. Includes black-and-white photographs.

Relates the experiences of thirty-three Chilean miners who were trapped two thousand feet below the surface of the earth in August 2010.