Chilean miners trapped underground in Copiapó have made contact 17 days after the mine in which they were working collapsed. Experts say it will take up to four months to dig them out
6 August 2010: San Esteban gold and copper mine manager Pedro Simonovich speaks to relatives of miners outside the mine near the city of Copiapo, in the arid Atacama desert
Photograph: Martin Bernetti/AFP/Getty Images
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