Miners' survival during 2010 Copiapó mining accident Miners' survival during 2010 Copiapó mining accident The 2010 Copiapó mining accident began as a cave-in on 5 August 2010 at the San José copper-gold mine in the Atacama Desert near Copiapó, Chile. The accident trapped 33 men underground who survived for a record 69 days. All were rescued and brought to the surface on 13 October 2010 over a period of almost 24 hours. After the last trapped miner was winched to the surface, the rescue workers still underground held up a sign before the camera stating “""” (English: “"Mission accomplished Chile"”) to the estimated more than 1 billion
Luotuoshan coal mine flood Luotuoshan coal mine flood The Luotuoshan coal mine flood was an incident that began on Monday, March 1, 2010, when a large amount of water the Luotuoshan coal mine near the city of Wuhai in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China. A total of 77 workers were underground when they broke into a large pool of Ordovician limestone water early in the morning. By Monday evening, 45 were rescued and one was confirmed dead. All rescue operations were stopped after 14 days, when medical teams believed that the 31 trapped coal miners had no chance