'Unprecedented' challenge to save Chilean miners Kansas City Star Related: | Photos | "factbox" --> More News | The effort to save 33 men trapped deep in a Chilean mine is an unprecedented challenge, mining safety experts said Tuesday. It means months of drilling, then a harrowing three-hour trip in a cage up a narrow hole carved through solid rock. | If all of th...
Chilean miners await rescue as drilling begins The Guardian | 31-tonne drill bores 50 feet into rock as rescue mission to save 33 trapped miners begins | Drilling began on Monday to rescue the 33 Chilean miners trapped underground, as it emerged that they have spoken for the first time to family members waiting for them on the surface. | A 31-tonne drill bor...
Over 70 Countries Converge to Craft a Truly Global Congress Insurance Newsnet | ROYAL PALM BEACH, FLORIDA--(Marketwire - Sept. 2, 2010) - The Medical Tourism Association announced today that over seventy countries have confirmed participation in the 3rd Annual World Medical Tourism and Global Healthcare Congress in Los Angeles...
EMERGING MARKETS-Latam stocks rally on global manufacturing data The Guardian * Chinese, U.S. manufacturing rose in August * Price for oil in Petrobras oil-share swap expected * Bovespa up 2.35 pct, Mexico's IPC gains 1.75 pct (Updates to afternoon) By Luciana Lopez SAO PAULO, Sept 1 (Reuters) - Latin American stocks recorded ...
Sources: Chiles ending bid Herald Tribune | Florida's wild gubernatorial race appeared on the verge of another big turn Tuesday -- one that could significantly benefit Democratic nominee Alex Sink. AC = 1234 | --> | Lawton "Bud" Chiles III, the son of one of Florida's most iconic political f...
SQM Reports Earnings for the First Half of 2010 redOrbit | SANTIAGO, Chile, Sept. 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Sociedad Quimica y Minera de Chile S.A. (SQM) (NYSE: SQM; Santiago Stock Exchange: SQM-B, SQM-A) reported today earnings for the first half of 2010 of US$181.5 million (US$0.69 per ADR), an increas...
Drilling begins at collapsed Chile mine Mumbai Mirror | AFP | Posted On Wednesday, September 01, 2010 at 02:09:24 AM | Copiapo A powerful mechanical digger began digging a rescue shaft at a collapsed Chile mine where 33 men are trapped some 700 meters below ground, a government source said. | The giant,...
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Brazilian airline TAM plans to merge with Chile's LAN BBC News Two major South American airlines are planning to merge and create the biggest carrier in the region. | Brazil's largest airline TAM Linhas Aereas is looking to join with Chile's L...
'Unprecedented' challenge to save Chilean miners The State | SAN JOSE MINE, Chile - The effort to save 33 men trapped deep in a Chilean mine is an unprecedented challenge, mining safety experts said Tuesday. It means months of drilling, then a harrowing three-hour trip in a cage up a narrow hole carved throu...
Chilean mine company owners to be questioned over causes of collapse The Guardian | Bosses to be quizzed over safety failures that led to 33 miners being trapped, as engineers begin drilling rescue shaft | The owners of Chile's San Esteban mining company face questioning by a government committee today over safety failures that le...
Trapped Chilean miners to move 4,000 tonnes of rock The Guardian Open Platform | The miners trapped underground in Chile will have to move up to 4,000 of tonnes of rock sent crashing down into their tunnel by the drill that last night began boring a rescue shaft to save them. | As work started on a pilot hole to reach the 33 me...
Cotabato LGU to review ban on open-pit mining Inquirer | SOUTH COTABATO'S provincial government will review a ban on open pit mining that could hamper the $5.2-billion Tampakan copper-gold project in Mindanao and other existing quarrying operations, according to Gov. Arthur Pingoy Jr. | 'There are some lawyers who have said the ban is illegal and there are some who say it is not, so the Minerals Develo...
