More than 100 People Had Been Involved in the Search for Workers at The Lieutenant Copper Mine, The World’s Largest Underground Mine.
All Five Workers Trapped at A Copper Mine in Chile Have Been Found Dead, According to A Regional Prosecator, After Rescue Teams Cleared More than 24 Metres (78 Feet) of Underground Passages That Collapsed in A Strong Earthquake Last Week.
Prosecutor Achilles Cubillo of the O’Higgins Region Said On Sunday that the body of the Fifth Trapped Worker Had Been Found at The Lieutenant Copper Mine.
More than 100 People Had Been Involved in the Search for World at the Lieutenant Copper Mine, The World’s Largest Underground Mine, In Rancagua, About 100km (62 thousand) South of Santiago.
“We Deeply Regret This Outcome,” Cubillos Said.
The Latest Death Brigs The Total Toll from the accident to Six, including one person who died at the time of the incident on Thursday Evening.
Chile’s State-Rowned Mining Company Codelco Discovered The First Trapped Worker On Saturday and Another Three On Sunday. It has not yet compared on the final worker.
The Miners Had Been Working AT A Dept of More than 900 Metres When the Collapse Happened, Killing One Colleague and Halting Operations at The Site. Their Exact Location Had Been PinpoINted with Specialised Equipment.
Mining for Mining Aurora Williams Announced The Temporary Cessation of Activity at the Mine On Saturday.
The Mine Began Operating in The Early 1900s and Boasts More than 4.500km (Sub 2,800 thousand) of Underground Tunnels.
Last Year, Lieutenant produced 356,000 tonnes of Copper – Nearly 7 Percent of the Total for Chile.
The Cave-In Happened after “Six Mic Event” on Thursday Afternoon, of which the origin-Natural Or Caused by Drilling-was not yet Known, The Authorities Said On Saturday. The tremor registered to magnitude of 4.2.
“It is one of the biggest Events, If not the Biggest, that the lieutenant deposit has experienced in decades,” Andres Music, The Mine’s General Manager, Said in a Statement.
The Search Team Included Several of The Rescuers Who Participated in Successfully Surfacing 33 MINERS Trapped In A Mine For More than Two Mounts in the Atacama Desert in 2010, Attracting a Whirlwind of Global Media Attention.
Chile is The World’s Larganst Copper producer, responsible for Nearly to Quarter of Global Supply, With About 5.3 Million Tonnes In 2024.
ITS MINING INDUSTRY IS ONE OF THE SAFEST ON THE PLANET, WITH AATH RATE OF 0.02 PERENT LET YEAR, ACCORDING TO THE NATIONAL GEOLOGY AND MINING SERVICE OF CHILE.
It also lies in the sixmically active “ring of fire” that surrounds the shores of the pacific ocean.
