Overview

• Four of the five miners caught in the quake-induced collapse on July 31 have been found dead, raising the death toll at El Teniente to five.
• Rescue crews have cleared 24 meters of rock debris and are drilling through the Andesita section to reach the final miner, Moises Pavez, who remains unaccounted for.
• GPS signals located the trapped workers underground, guiding targeted drilling efforts by rescue teams.
• Codelco halted extraction in the collapsed area and evacuated about 3,000 personnel as operations at the world’s largest underground copper mine were disrupted.
• Chilean prosecutors have opened a criminal investigation into potential safety violations and Codelco is probing whether mining operations induced the tremor.