A guard gate blocks access to the San José mine site rescue operations in northern Chile on Tuesday, October 12, 2010. One of countless tributes to the trapped miners marks the side of the road ...

"I know all of Chile, but not the rest of the world." Villarroell, a mechanic, worked at the San Jose mine for two years. His girlfriend was pregnant while he was trapped. The miners captured the ...

it had only 16 safety auditors for the more than 4,500 mines in Chile. In the Atacama Region (III) where the collapsed San José mine is located, only three auditors oversee 844 mining areas.

A protest to demand the wages of more than 300 employees at the San José mine took place Friday morning in Copiapó northern Chile. The mine is where the 33 miners were rescued from last month ...

COPIAPO, Chile, Oct 16 (AFP) -Thirty-one of the 33 miners rescued ... Pena, giving AFP brief insights into his experience trapped in the bowels of the dark, dank San Jose mine said “the confinement ...