COPIAPO, Chile (Reuters) - The first of three rescue drills on Friday reached 33 Chilean miners trapped for six weeks half a mile (0.70 kilometre) underground, but it will still take weeks to widen the shaft enough to extract the men.
The miners greeted the arrival of the drillhead with an exhilarated message of thanks to their companions on the
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