Collaboration of a mine in Chile: the five minors found dead

Rescue operations in Chile in the largest underground copper mine in the world ended on Sunday with the discovery of the body of the last of the five minors trapped by a collapse on Thursday. Therefore, They are all dead, announced the prosecution. Therefore,

(Keystone-ATS) Mine activities were suspended on Friday following an order issued by the Ministry of Mines to facilitate research.

“Today. we finally found (dead) the last of the workers who was missing,” collaboration mine chile: five minors new the regional prosecutor of the locality of O’Higgins, Aquiles Cubillos told the press.

With its 4. 500 km of galleries, El Teniente is the largest underground copper deposit on the planet, owned by the Chilean public enterprise Codelco.

All the bodies were found in the same place. where a collapse caused by a “seismic event” occurred on Thursday, whose origin, natural or linked to boreholes, is being investigated.

Another worker had been found dead shortly after the collapse.

“From today is starting a key step. the investigation,” said the chairman of the board of directors of Codelco, Máximo Pacheco, during a press conference, promising to do “everything necessary to clarify every detail of this tragedy”.

“We are the first interested in knowing quickly and reliably what happened,” he added.

With six dead. this is one of the most tragic accidents that occurred in the El Teniente mine in the past three decades.

Last year, El Teniente produced collaboration mine chile: five minors new 356,000 tonnes of copper ore, or 6.7% of the production of Chile, the world’s leading producer with 5.3 million tonnes annual.

The Chile mining industry is considered one of the safest in the world. In 2024, the mortality rate was 0.02%, according to the national service of geology and mines.