Rescue capsule "Phoenix"

Chili became the highest in GDP per capita in Latin America in 2006. With exports of forestry wood material, fresh fruit and processed food, seafood, and wine, Chile also has  more dangerouse minerals to obtain like copper, gold, silver, molybdenum, coal, and iron; which needs to be mined.  These important minerals, especially copper, gives Chile one third of their income through exports with China, US, Japan, Netherlands, South Korea, Italy, and Brazil.  So you understand why it is important for Chileans to put the fear aside and mine for these listed minerals.

A nun comes to Camp Hope to await the arival of the survivors

Mining for anything posts up all kinds of dangers and hazards for the workers/miners.  The miners face things like suffocation, gas poisoning, gas explosions, vehicle collisions, wall failures, and the most feared, roof collapsing and possibly killing alot of people.  But roof collapsing could also lead to trapping miners in the mines for an unknown amount of time.  On the date of Aug, 5th 2010 the San Jose mines in Chile collapsed trapping 33 people inside the gold and copper mine.  68 days into this incident officials, families, residents, and even two presidents are awaiting the rescue of all 33 miners, the rescue is supposed to begin at 6 p.m. Tuesday evening October, 12.  For the last two months a camp was put up at the mining site, the camp was named "Camp Hope", here the families waited in tents along with everyone else helping.  The hostility has grown from the anxiousness and the anticipation of their trapped family members making it through this alive. 

Yesterday they tested out a capsule looking device that is only a half of meter wide that has a phone and an oxygene tank in it.  This capsule is called the phoenix, it will lowered down a 600 meter well that was drilled several weeks ago.  Here they will lowere two mining experts and two paramedicts so that they could help assist the miners in the rescue.  One by one, the survivors will be hoisted up this long tunnel in a tiny capsule where they will see daylight and even their families faces another day.

Sites:
-msnbc
-Voanews
-Wikipedia
- JoesKitchen
-dangers in mining