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| Fresh moves to free Utah miners |
| Rescuers in the US state of Utah are to begin drilling through a mountainside to try to free six miners trapped in a collapsed mine since early on Mon
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 7-August-2007
10:27:38 AM |
| Vertical and horizontal shafts will be drilled to try to reach an abandoned mine close to the site of the accident.
An initial attempt to break the seals of the old mine failed late on Monday.
So far there has been no contact with the men, thought to be 1,500ft (457m) below ground and 3.4 miles (5.5km) from the entrance of Crandall Canyon mine.
The collapse was initially blamed on an earthquake, but experts have since suggested the shafts may have caved in with enough force to register on seismographs.
US federal mining inspectors are reported to have issued a number of citations over alleged safety violations at the mine, 140 miles (225km) from Salt Lake City, in recent years.
'Sparing no expense'
Hundreds of rescuers worked throughout Monday at the Crandall Canyon mine, near the town of Huntington, digging and drilling through rock and debris.
They had hoped to reach the miners via an adjacent, abandoned mine shaft, which could have put them within 100ft (30m) of the miners, but they were forced to withdraw amid further rock falls.
Afterwards, rescuers spent the night clearing a road outside the mine to allow a large drilling rig to reach the site. Another drill was also brought in by helicopter.
The chairman of the parent company of Genwal, the firm that runs the mine, said his workers would drill vertically from the top of the mountain while others would bore horizontally into the mountainside to reach the adjacent shaft.
Robert Murray of Murray Energy Corporation said the rescuers were "using every means known to mankind" to reach the miners.
"We're sparing no expense to bring every mining machine that we have in Utah in here," he told reporters.
"We will be on our feet until we get these men out, one way or another. We just may get them out in two or three days unharmed."
Mr Murray said the miners, if they survived, had enough air and water to last several days
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