10/14/2010

Photostream : Chile Mine Rescue Efforts

In this photo released by the Chilean government, miner Esteban Rojas, 44, gets on his knees to pray after being rescued from the collapsed San Jose gold and copper mine, near Copiapo, Chile, Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2010. Rojas was the eighteenth of the 33 miners rescued from the mine after more than two months trapped underground
(AP Photo/Hugo Infante, Chilean government)
In this photo released by the Government of Chile, miner Omar Reygadas Rojas, holds a Bible after being rescued from the collapsed San Jose gold and copper mine, near Copiapo, Chile, Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2010. Reygadas was the seventeenth of 33 miners rescued from the mine after more than 2 months trapped underground.
(AP Photo/Hugo Infante, Government of Chile)
      
Trapped miner Omar Reygadas (in green) embraces his son after reaching the surface to become the 17th to be rescued from the San Jose mine in Copiapo October 13, 2010. Seventeen of 33 trapped miners have been rescued from the gold and copper mine in Chile's northern Atacama desert in a painstaking operation still under way. REUTERS/Hugo Infante/Government of Chile/Handout
In this photo released by the Government of Chile, miner Daniel Herrera Campos embraces his mother after being rescued from the collapsed San Jose gold and copper mine, near Copiapo, Chile, Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2010. Herrera was the sixteenth of 33 miners rescued from the mine after more than 2 months trapped underground.
(AP Photo/Hugo Infante, Government of Chile)
Trapped miner Victor Segovia (C) reaches the surface to become the 15th to be rescued from the San Jose mine in Copiapo October 13, 2010. Sixteen of Chile's 33 trapped miners were hoisted to safety in a cramped rescue capsule on Wednesday, punching the air and hugging their families in a triumphant end to their two-month ordeal. REUTERS/Hugo Infante/Government of Chile/Handout
In this photo released by the Chilean presidential press office, Chile's President Sebastian Pinera, back, greets miner Victor Zamora Bugueno after his rescue from the collapsed San Jose gold and copper mine, near Copiapo, Chile, Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2010.
(AP Photo/Jose Manuel de la Maza, Chilean Presidential Press Office)
In this photo released by the Chilean government, miner Carlos Barrios waves to the crowd while emerging from the capsule that brought him to the surface from the collapsed San Jose gold and copper mine near Copiapo, Chile, Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2010. Barrios is the thirteenth of 33 miners who was rescued after more than 2 months trapped underground.
(AP Photo/Hugo Infante, Chilean government)
In this photo released by the Chilean government, Edison Pena, gestures as he is carried on a stretcher after being rescued at the San Jose mine, near Copiapo, Chile, Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2010. Pena was the twelfth of 33 miners rescued from the San Jose mine after more than 2 months trapped underground.
(AP Photo/Hugo Infante, Chilean government)
In this photo released by the Chilean government, Jorge Galleguillos, the eleventh miner rescued from the collapsed San Jose gold and copper mine waves to the crowd after been trapped with 32 other miners for over two months near Copiapo, Chile, Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2010
(AP Photo/Hugo Infante, Chilean government)
 
In this photo released by the Chilean government, miner Alex Vega gestures after being rescued from the collapsed San Jose gold and copper mine where he had been trapped with 32 other miners for over two months near Copiapo, Chile, Wednesday Oct. 13, 2010.
(AP Photo/Hugo Infante, Chilean government)
Roxana Gomez, left, daughter of miner Mario Gomez, is comforted by Maria Segovia, sister of trapped miner Dario Segovia, as they watch on TV Gomez's rescue from the collapsed San Jose mine at the camp outside the mine near Copiapo, Chile, Wednesday Oct. 13, 2010. Thirty-three miners became trapped when the gold and copper mine collapsed on Aug. 5.
(AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
In this photo released by the Chilean government, miner Florencio Avalos is carried away on a stretcher after being rescued from the collapsed San Jose gold and copper mine where he was trapped with 32 other miners for over two months near Copiapo, Chile, early Wed Oct. 13, 2010
(AP Photo/Hugo Infante, Chilean government)
In this photo released by the Chilean government, miner Claudio Yanez applauds as he is carried away in a stretcher after being rescued from the collapsed San Jose gold and copper mine where he had been trapped with 32 other miners for over two months near Copiapo, Chile, early Wed Oct. 13, 2010.
(AP Photo/Hugo Infante, Chilean government)
In this photo released by the Chilean government, miner Florencio Avalos, second left, hugs a relative after he was rescued from the collapsed San Jose gold and copper mine where he was trapped with 32 other miners for over two months near Copiapo, Chile, early Wed, Oct. 13, 2010.
(AP Photo/Hugo Infante, Chilean government)
Alfonso Avalos (right) father of Chilean miner Florencio Avalos and Wilson Avalos brother of Florencio embrace each other after Florencio was brought to the surface from the collapsed San Jose mine, near Copiapo. Rescue workers in Chile by had lifted to safety nearly a third of the 33 miners trapped deep underground, in an historic and complex operation carried off without a hitch.
(AFP/Hector Retamal)
Relatives of miner Carlos Barrios react while watching on a TV screen the rescue operation at the camp outside the San Jose mine near Copiapo, Chile, Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2010. Barrios was the thirteenth of 33 miners who was rescued from the collapsed gold and copper mine after more than 2 months trapped underground
(AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
Residents rally in support of the miners trapped in the San Jose mine, as they gather to watch the rescue on a large screen in a public square in Copiapo October 12, 2010. Chile's 33 trapped miners are set to travel nearly half a mile through solid rock in a shaft just wider than a man's shoulders on Tuesday night, as their two month ordeal after a cave-in draws to an end
REUTERS/Mariana Bazo