Mining equipment manufacturer Joy Global, Inc. reported Wednesday a decline in profit for the third quarter, mainly hurt by lower underground equipment sales as well as sales from United States. Quarterly earnings per share, however, topped the market projections, while top line missed their view. The Milwaukee, Wisconsin-based company lifted its fiscal 2010 earnings forecast.

Trapped miners are seen underground in a copper and gold mine at Copiapo, some 725 km (450 miles) north of Santiago, in this frame grab taken August 29, 2010. REUTERS/Chilean Mining Ministry/Handout MONTEVIDEO, Sept 2 (Reuters) - Survivors of a 1972 plane crash featured in the movie "Alive" will travel to Chile to comfort the families of 33 trapped miners as a way of repaying the country for ...

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Chilean President Sebastian Pinera said Wednesday he hopes 33 miners trapped nearly a half-mile underground will be home by Christmas

The effort to save 33 men trapped deep in a Chilean mine is an unprecedented challenge, mining safety experts said Tuesday. It means months of drilling, then a harrowing three-hour trip in a cage up a narrow hole carved through solid rock.

NASA experts advised Chilean officials to be frank with 33 miners trapped deep underground about how long their rescue will take, as a giant drill slowly burrowed toward the desperate men.

Bosses to be quizzed over safety failures that led to 33 miners being trapped, as engineers begin drilling rescue shaft The owners of Chile's San Esteban mining company faced questions yesterday from a government committee about safety failures which led to the accident that has trapped 33 miners underground. Alejandro Bohn and Marcelo Kemeny have so far failed to explain why the mine was ...

RENO, NV--(Marketwire - August 30, 2010) - Gold American Mining Corp. ( OTCBB : SILA ) ("Gold American" and/or "the Company") is pleased to announce that it has received the final ground geophysics report on its Guadalupe property and confirms that the recently concluded geophysics program has identified multiple potentially significant geophysical anomalies.

Trapped Chilean miners will be going through massive psychological trauma, say two men who know The gold lettering on the plaque outside the Beaconsfield mining museum stands as a stark reminder. It was presented just a few weeks after the mining collapse four years ago that saw two men trapped underground for 14 long days and nights. The plaque is dedicated to the "resilience, generosity and ...

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