1964 Andacollo mining accident
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| Date | 19 February 1964 |
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| Location | Pique Flore de Te & Pique G3, near Andacollo, Coquimbo Region, Chile |
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| Outcome | All 7 trapped miners rescued |
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The 1964 Andacollo mining accident began on 19 February 1964, with a cave-in at a gallery of an improvised small-scale gold mine, located in the vicinity of the town of Andacollo, 39 kilometers southeast of the regional capital of La Serena, in north-central Chile. In the accident seven pirquineros were trapped a for days while ENAMI led an ultimately successful rescue.[1] Two miners were rescued on the third day of entrapment and the remaining five in the seventh day.[2] The event generated an intense news coverage via radio and the press in Chile.[1]
Later in 1975 ENAMI started to buy much of the property where small-scale mines existed around Andacollo and the large-scale Carmen de Andacollo copper-gold mine begun operations in 1994.[3][4]
References
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Bibliography
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