The excavation activities are done 24 hours a day, with workers drilling holes and setting explosives in the shaft circle. Rubble from the explosion is scooped out using remote-controlled ...

Rescuers in Chile are increasingly frustrated over their inability to pull out a broken drill bit stuck deep inside a shaft which is being drilled to rescue 33 trapped miners. If the part cannot ...

COPIAPO, Chile (Reuters) - Resigned to watching his child's imminent birth on video, trapped miner Ariel Ticona waited as rescuers started drilling an escape shaft on Monday to save him and 32 ...

A drilling rig is on fire after an explosion at a site in Franklin County near the Waco community east of Russellville. Three crew members had to be flown to hospitals due to burns to their faces.

Rescuers started drilling a 2-foot (66-cm) diameter shaft on Monday evening that will be used to evacuate the miners one at a time in a cage attached to a pulley.