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A bore hole reached 33 trapped Chilean miners Friday, officials said, but it must be widened before the miners can squeeze through -- a process that should take a few weeks.

Thirty-three men stuck a half mile underground are now the longest-trapped miners in recent history as a huge drill is the early stages of digging a planned escape route.

33 trapped miners trapped in a collapsed mine in Chile have sent new video to the surface in which they send greetings, show the space they are confined in and sing the Chilean national anthem.

Put on a show. Play cards. Sing. Get exercise. And whatever you do, don't get too fat to squeeze through the escape tunnel. Chilean officials are offering lots of advice to help 33 miners trapped underground keep their health and sanity as they wait to be rescued. One thing they're not sharing with the men is their estimate that it could take four months to drill them out of an emergency shelter nearly half a mile below the surface.

The 33 workers trapped inside a mine in Chile cheered, applauded and sang the country's national anthem in their first verbal contact with officials.

It was a remarkable tale of survival from the depths of a collapsed Chilean mine: After more than two weeks of failed rescue efforts, a video camera threaded deep underground captured the first images of 33 miners, all alive and apparently in good health. Officials said it could take as long as four months to dig a new tunnel wide enough to lift the miners to the surface.

An underground explosion in a coal mine in central China's Henan Province trapped at least 58 miners early Monday, Chinese state media reported.

Two miners were missing Thursday and rescuers were unable to contact them after a roof collapsed in a large underground coal mine in western Kentucky, company and union officials said.

More than 100 Chinese miners were pulled out alive Monday after being trapped for over a week in a flooded coal mine, where some ...

The Australian negotiator for the mining giant and three Chinese co-workers are found guilty of taking bribes from private steel mills and stealing commercial secrets. An Australian mining executive was sentenced to 10 years in prison Monday by a Shanghai court on charges of bribery and stealing commercial secrets.