All five trapped workers who were missing in a collapsed shaft in the world\u2019s biggest underground copper mine have been found dead, an official said on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Aquiles Cubillos, the lead prosecutor in Chile\u2019s O\u2019Higgins region, said the body of Mois\u00e9s Pavez, the last miner to remain missing, was found at 3.30pm local time by rescue teams. They had drilled through dozens of meters of rock to reach the stranded workers.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe deeply regret this outcome,\u201d Cubillos said.<\/p>\n
The five miners \u2013 Gonzalo N\u00fa\u00f1ez, Jean Miranda, Alex Araya, Carlos Arancibia, and P\u00e1vez were trapped deep inside Chile\u2019s El Teniente mine on Thursday after a section collapsed following a 4.2 magnitude earthquake that instantly killed miner Paulo Mar\u00edn and injured nine other workers.<\/p>\n
The trapped miners were located by using GPS devices but rescue teams were not able to communicate with them.<\/p>\n
Authorities are investigating whether it was a naturally occurring earthquake or whether mining activity at El Teniente caused the tremor. Chilean prosecutors also launched a criminal investigation to determine whether any safety standards were violated.<\/p>\n
El Teniente, located in the Andes mountains in central Chile, is the world\u2019s largest underground copper mine and is owned by state company Codelco.<\/p>\n
Shortly after Thursday\u2019s collapse, Codelco halted operations in the affected section of the mine and evacuated 3,000 people from the broader site to safe areas.<\/p>\n
The company cancelled a presentation of its first-half financial results, set for Friday morning, due to the rescue efforts.<\/p>\n
Chile, the world\u2019s biggest copper producer, lies in the seismically active Ring of Fire that surrounds the shores of the Pacific Ocean.<\/p>\n
In 2010, Chile\u2019s government rescued 33 miners trapped in a copper mine in the country\u2019s north for two months in a dramatic operation that made global headlines and was later depicted in a Hollywood movie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All five trapped workers who were missing in a collapsed shaft in the world\u2019s biggest underground copper mine…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-315972","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114967920252174889","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}