SAN JOSE MINE, Chile - A horn blast on Saturday Announced the completion of a shaft That will serve Thurs Rescue 33 Trapped Miners for two months deep inside a collapsed mine.
Rescue Crew Workers Operating the drill Began Immediately jumping once and Embracing Their task was complete.
Quickly They were joined by the Hundreds of relatives of the Miners staying next to the mine at Camp Hope, WHO, cheered and exchanged embraces.
The Miners Could Be out as early as Tuesday, Officials Said, depending is an engineering assessment on the Stability of the shaft.
"This is overwhelming - I can only imagine what my brother must be feeling down there," Gaston Henriquez, the brother of one of the Miners, Told AFP as they choked the tears.
"We are very happy, Because for the past two months we have suffered enormously. We'll now wait for Them Thurs emerge SO WE CAN HUG Them and Bring Them Home," Wilson said Avalos, WHO has two brothers in the mine.
Several enthusiastic people in Camp Hope at the site ran up a hill near the mine in 1932 and raised Chilean flags and a Bolivian flag, representing the Nationality of the Trapped Miners.
The Trapped Miners Have Been More Than 700 meters (2.300 feet) underground in the northern Chile copper and gold mine since August 5, Surviving Longer Than Any similarly trapped before.
Engineers said They drilled through the last four meters (yards) of rock with special care Thurs Avoid tunnel collapses.
Engineers must now decided if They Need to decided to rein force all or part of the shaft walls by inserting giant tubes.
The Miners will then be Brought up in a Individually custom build cage.
One top government official Suggested the first Miners Could Be Pulled up to the surface early next week.
"Tuesday, Tuesday," Health Minister Jaime Manalich Told reporters outside the San Jose Mine "when asked" when the operation begin nudged ahead of the shaft Reaching the Miners.
A Senior Engineer Also Said That, in What Could Be a risky operation, the Miners Would Have to set off Explosives Thurs Widen the bottom of the mine so the rescue cage Would not fit.
"It's an explosion and That MEANS Taking precautions. We Have to clear the area so the shock wave That doesn't REACH anyone," said Andre Sougarret, the engineer in charge.
Journalists and camera crews from around the world had occurred flocked to the mine, hoping Thurs capture the first images of the Miners emerging. More than 1.000 are EE Thurs reporters have arrived by the weekend.
"God be willing, in a few days The whole country will be weeping with joy ..." when we see the Miners These emerge from the Depths of the Mountain Thurs Embrace Their Wives, Children, Mothers and Fathers, "said President Sebastian Piñera.
For days after part of the mine collapsed and trapped the Miners engineers were convinced That Died They all had occurred.
Then after two weeks of silence Came an Extraordinary note, penned in capital letters and Written with red ink, Chile That Gave the miraculous news That the Miners were still alive.
"All 33 of us are well inside the shelter," said the note written by the Oldest miner, 63-year-old Mario Gomez, and Attached to a drill bit Which breached Their shelter is August 22
A costly million-dollar rescue operation swung into place, and Mining Engineers, Including But experts also Life Medics and Psychiatrists whose job was to facilitate the men Thurs COPE With Their enforced confinement.
Cameras Lowered through small bore holes Revealed pictures of the men, lit Mainly by the lamps is Their Hard-hats, grimy and dusty and often bare-chested Because of the stifling heat.
Most of the Men Are Between the ages of 40 and 63, But eight are in Their Twenties, and 19-year-old Jimmy has Sandez Not Even Graduated from high school.
Saturday marked the 66th day of Their confinement in a space the size of a living room.
The Miners' have shown signs of anxiety as To Be was expected. Others have HAD Higher Than TAXABLE desirable in blood pressure, "said Manalich, the health minister.
Rescuers will use an Austrian-made system of hoisting cranes Thurs Pulleys and lower the rescue cage down the shaft and slowly extract the Miners.
Engineers say Each agonizingly slow trip nudged take up Thurs 1.5 hours, Meaning the Entire Rescue Could last up to two days....
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