Chile Steps Up Search for Trapped Miners as Deadline Looms

  • Air for the two miners is estimated to run out in three days
  • A second drill is expected to reach area in coming hours
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The search for two men buried in a Patagonian gold mine may not be attracting the kind of global attention as the miraculous rescue of 33 miners in Chile seven years ago, but it’s no less dramatic.

To begin with, time is running out.