Compañía Minera San Esteban Primera and rescue efforts began the next day. The National Emergencies Office of Chile that day issued a list of 33 trapped and possibly deceased miners, that included Franklin Lobos, a retired footballer, and Carlos Mamani, a Bolivian national. 17 days later on August 22 the miners were found to be alive, but trapped. It was not until 69 days after the collapse on October 13, 2010, that the first miner, Florencio Ávalos, was rescued. All 33 were eventually rescued. San Esteban Mining Company is considering bankruptcy. San José is the only mine owned by San Esteban. President of Chile Sebastián
Beaconsfield Mine collapse been killed in the initial rockfall, but Webb and Russell were still alive, trapped in part of the vehicle in which they had been working at the time of the collapse, known as a teleloader or telehandler. They were in a basket at the end of the telehandler's arm, where they had been applying steel mesh to a barricade prior to backfilling a stope. It was initially misreported that the two miners were saved by a slab of rock that fell on top of the basket, but in a Channel 9 exclusive interview broadcast on 21 May, Webb and Russell