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Chile's trapped miners cheered and embraced each other Saturday as a drill punched into their underground chamber, opening a way out with a spray of rock and dust from the collapsed mine where they have been stuck for an agonizing 66 days.
More than 2,000 feet (610 meters) above them, rescue workers also celebrated, dancing and spraying champagne with such excitement that hardhats tumbled off their heads.
Family members chanted and waved flags, then everyone braced for the next challenge: Rescuers must decide whether it's riskier to pull the 33 miners directly up through unreinforced rock, or to insert tons of heavy steel pipe into the curved shaft in an attempt to protect them. The answer will determine whether their pullout begins Tuesday, or up to a week later.
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Amazing... A mine collapses in Chili and after 66 days the miners are alive and waiting rescue. A mine collapses in the United States and more often than not we are recovering bodies....
America the Super power and best democracy with Capitalism as its main stay and death is the end results of these collapses.
Chili (as a friend's daughter's text book is teaching her...) an unstable government with thieves and dictators keeping the people oppressed and they have hope of life for those miners...
Something is seriously wrong with our way of thinking and teaching and worker's safety.
May those workers see sunlight soon.
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