Concerns mount over mental state of trapped miners
- Publishing Date
- 07 Sep 2010 4:23pm GMT
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- Mining, People and the Environment
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Specialists from the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have been drafted in to advise the Chilean government on keeping 33 trapped miners in good mental health after they were told it could take up to four months to rescue them.
Video footage of the trapped miners, released by the Chilean government, shows them in good spirits and singing the national anthem. But NASA advisors have warned that the miners could suffer depression and display territorial behaviour and hostility in their wait to be rescued.
The miners have been receiving food, water and medicine by tube, and have been able to make radio contact with their families on the surface.
They have also been assigned tasks and roles to keep them occupied.
Meanwhile, drilling of a 38cm pilot hole has commenced using a large-diameter Strata 950 raise-boring machine (transferred from Codelco’s Andina mine).
The 33 miners became trapped underground on August 5 following a tunnel collapse at the privately-owned operation.
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