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
2010 Copiapó mining accident a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer at the "Los Angeles Times". Tobar had exclusive access to the miners and in October 2014 published an official account titled "Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free". Tobar described the previous books published on the topic as "quick and dirty" with "almost no cooperation from the miners." These books include "Trapped: How the World Rescued 33 Miners from 2,000 Feet Below the Chilean Desert" (August 2011) by Marc Aronson; "Buried Alive!: How 33 Miners Survived 69 Days Deep Under the Chilean