“mineshaft's”

Mohammad Syarifudin

Friday, October 15, 2010 Chile Celebrates As Miners Emerge from Underground By the time the capsule rose through the mineshaft's manhole-size opening shortly after midnight, the surrounding desert outside the northern Chilean city of Copiapó was as dark and cold as a sepulcher. But when 30-year-old Florencio Avalos emerged from 2, 000 ft. (700 m) below the earth ? where he and his 32 companions had been huddled since their gold and copper mine collapsed on Aug. 5 ? and into the