2010 Copiapó mining accident 2010 Copiapó mining accident The 2010 Copiapó mining accident, also known then as the "Chilean mining accident", began on Thursday, 5 August 2010 with a cave-in at the San José copper–gold mine, located in the Atacama Desert north of the regional capital of Copiapó, in northern Chile. Thirty-three men, trapped underground and from the mine's entrance via spiraling underground ramps, were rescued after 69 days. After the state-owned mining company, Codelco, took over rescue efforts from the mine's owners, exploratory boreholes were drilled, and seventeen days after the accident a note was found taped to a drill bit pulled back
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