Tuesday, October 12, 2010

The first miner ascends

This is an amazing ascensor.  The first miner reaches the surface in Chile.

2 comments:

bonnie said...

Marvelous, isn't it?

GeorgeConk said...

Mine cave-in stories never end well - until now. And in Chile the miners are the heart of the industrial working class - as they were here - and the mines are a great source of national wealth and pride. So it is an especially powerful for the Chileans.