Chilean government releases footage of trapped miners
- Publishing Date
- 27 Aug 2010 12:17pm GMT
- Author
- Mining Journal
Video footage of the 33 miners trapped in the San Jose gold-copper in Chile since August 5 has been released showing them in good spirits and singing the country’s national anthem.
The footage was shot on a camera lowered through a small tunnel drilled into the miner’s refuge room about 700m below ground.
Chile’s government released the five minutes of night vision footage, believed to be part of a 45-minute video.
Meanwhile, rescuers are preparing a 40t RUC Strata 950 drilling machine to bore through the rock in an effort to free the trapped workers.
It is expected drilling will begin tomorrow after the bore is anchored in about 40m3 of concrete, a supervisor from state-owned Codelco, which is conducted the rescue, said.
The machine was transported from one of Codelco’s central Chilean mines, where it is used to excavate ventilation shafts.
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