In Central Chile, some 100 rescue workers are trying to reach five miners, which are missing after the part of the El Tenant Copper Mine, who fell into a major earth shock on Thursday, killing one of his colleagues.
The state -run copper manufacturer Kodelco said on Friday that a rescue team had progressed 4 meters (13 feet) towards the miners, to go to another 16 meters (53 ft).
The company said that till now there was no contact with the workers to establish bees.
What happened in El Tenant mine?
A quantity of 4.2 is a shivering. On Thursday afternoon, kill the new Endeta Unit of the mine for the local time period, a partial collapse that killed a minein, implicating five other people.
Minery, whose exact location, detected Ben using special equipment, was working at a depth of more than 900 meters (about 3,000 ft) when it fell.
The operation of the mine after the accident has closed bees.
Kodelco President Maximo Pacheko said in a press conference on Friday afternoon, “We will do everything that is humanly possible to save five trapped workers.”
He said, “All our experiences, all our knowledge, all our energy, and all our strengths are dedicated to this reason and is devoted to see it through it,” he said.
Officials say they do not yet know whether trembling was natural origin or due to drilling.
Major copper producer
The El Tenant mine, the world’s largest underground copper mine, is located in Rankagua of Andes Mountains, which is about 100 kilometers (62 miles) south of the capital Santiago.
It began in the early 1900s and had more than 4,500 kilometers (some 2.800 mi) underground tunnels.
Last year, L. Tenant produced 356,000 metric tonnes (over 392,000 tonnes) of copper – about 7%of Chile’s total production.
According to the National Geology and Mining Service of Chile, Chile’s mining industry is the safest in the world with a deadly rate of 0.02 percent last year.
The country provides about a quarter of the global supply of copper, producing about 5.3 million metric tonnes (5.8 million tonnes) in 2024.
