A guard gate blocks access to the San José mine site rescue operations in northern Chile on Tuesday, October 12, 2010. One of countless tributes to the trapped miners marks the side of the road ...

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When the mine collapsed Piñera who was in Colombia for the taking office of President Juan Manuel Santos flew back to Chile and promised “every possible human effort” to rescue the miners.

Rashid, Faaiza, Amy C. Edmondson, and Herman B. Leonard. "Leadership Lessons from the Chilean Mine Rescue." Harvard Business Review 91, nos. 7/8 (July–August 2013): 113–119.

The project has been a focal point for environmental debates in Chile, the world's leading copper producer. A government review committee denied a key environmental permit for the Dominga mine in ...

A view shows the Escondida copper mine with its operations paused during a blackout in Antofagasta, Chile, on February ... An AFP photographer saw firefighters rescue a distraught elderly woman ...

SANTIAGO, Feb 25 (Reuters) - BHP will move forward with a $2 billion plan to optimize its concentrator at Escondida, the world's largest copper mine, as part of its investment plan in Chile ...

Like other mining companies, BHP, which owns a 57.5% stake in the mine, is scrambling to cut costs amid a slide in copper prices in recent years Workers at the world's largest copper mine, BHP ...

Manuel Gonzalez, a rescue specialist from Codelco, is the first rescuer lowered by the Phoenix 2 rescue capsule into the mine.