Tag: miners

• Tuesday, November 2nd 2021 - 08:54 UTC

  Peru's largest copper mine halts operations due to peasants' strike

  

  Peru's Antamina copper mine had to halt operations Sunday due to a strike by a rural community that decided to block one of the roads through which output is carried.

• Thursday, April 12th 2012 - 06:14 UTC

  Nine ‘illegal’ Peruvian miners rescued after six days trapped underground

  

  Nine Peruvian miners emerged into the daylight Wednesday morning after six days trapped in a collapsed mine. State television showed the miners leaving the Cabeza de Negro mine, each supported by two rescuers. They wore sunglasses to protect their eyes from the light, after spending so much time in darkness.

• Friday, October 14th 2011 - 04:08 UTC

  The 33 Chilean rescued miners: from glory to the gray everyday life

  

  On October 13, 2010, the 33 trapped Chilean miners looked upon the blazing sunshine of the Atacama Desert for the first time in over two months. It was remarkable they had survived at all, but their successful rescue after so long underground was positively incredible.

• Thursday, August 4th 2011 - 13:56 UTC

  ”Against All Odds: Rescue at the Chilean Mine” exhibit opens in Washington

  

  After nearly six months of planning, the Chilean Embassy in the United States—headed by Ambassador Arturo Fermandois—is refining the final details for the opening of a new exhibit at the Smithsonian National Museum of National History in Washington, D.C., on the historic rescue of the 33 Chilean miners last October.

• Tuesday, July 19th 2011 - 01:26 UTC

  Chilean rescued miners file 16 million dollars compensation lawsuit

  

  Thirty-one of the 33 Chilean miners rescued last year from the bottom of the San José mine filed a lawsuit late last week against the government agency that was supposed to have monitored the safety of the mine. The 33 miners were miraculously rescues after surviving nearly two months underground.

• Friday, February 11th 2011 - 06:24 UTC

  Fearing food riots Bolivian President Morales abandons public event

  

  Bolivian President Evo Morales was forced on Thursday to abandon a public event in the face of angry protests over food shortages and price rises. Morales was due to address a parade to commemorate a colonial-era uprising in the mining city of Oruro.

• Sunday, January 30th 2011 - 20:40 UTC

  Rescued Chilean Miner Jose Henriquez Tours UK Churches

  

  Last year tens of millions watched the drama of the Chilean miners, unfold, and few will ever forget it. Thirty-three men had been trapped by a fall of rock, 700 metres below the surface of a mine in Chile.

• Thursday, January 20th 2011 - 23:35 UTC

  Chilean Commission Finds Mines Owners Responsible for Collapse

  

  The Chilean commission investigating the mining disaster in the Atacama desert last year, has found the owners of the San Jose mine and the National Service of Geology and Mines responsible for the accident and the Chilean government free of any blame.

• Thursday, December 30th 2010 - 08:06 UTC

  According The Times Chile Miners Named “Team of the Year”

  

  The 33 miners who survived 69 days at a depth of some 700 meters (2,300 feet) down a Chilean mine were named “Team of the Year” on Tuesday by The Times of London

• Saturday, November 6th 2010 - 07:48 UTC

  Chilean miners from world famous pit protest to demand wages

  

  A protest to demand the wages of more than 300 employees at the San José mine took place Friday morning in Copiapó northern Chile.