SAN JOSE MINE (Chile) - SIXTY-SIX agonising days after their gold and copper mine collapsed above them, 33 miners were offered a way out on Saturday as a drill broke through to their underground purgatory.
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The 'Plan B' drill won a three-way race against two other drills to carve a hole wide enough for an escape capsule to pull the miners out one by one.
But now comes a difficult judgment call: The rescue team must decide whether it's more risky to pull the miners through unreinforced rock, or to insert tons of heavy steel pipe into the curved shaft to protect the miners on their way up.
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