Compañía Minera San Esteban Primera workers at this mine were paid around 20% higher wages than at other Chilean mines, due to its poor safety record. The San José Mine is located 45 kilometers northwest of Copiapó. It began operations in 1889. In 1957, Jorge Kemeny Letay, a Hungarian immigrant founded the San Esteban Mining Company (). The San José Mine () is a small copper-gold mine located near Copiapó, Atacama Region, Chile. The mine was the site of a 2010 collapse which trapped 33 miners underground. Its workings are reached by a long sloping roadway with many spiral turns (a diagram shows ten turns),
Soma mine disaster claim has been dismissed by the person's family. Rescue crews arrived at the mine soon after the explosion and provided fresh air to the mine workings in an effort to keep those workers still trapped underground alive. Four mine rescue teams were deployed underground to look for trapped miners; however thick smoke initially hindered progress in the operations to rescue more workers from the mine. A black ribbon with a notice that read "condolences to all of us" was placed on the Turkish Google homepage on May 14 and 15. Football clubs Beşiktaş, Fenerbahçe, and Galatasaray from Turkey, Chelsea, Liverpool,