{"id":2606527,"date":"2025-08-08T03:24:41","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T03:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/2606527\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T03:24:41","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T03:24:41","slug":"chile-all-five-missing-workers-confirmed-dead-after-the-collapse-at-worlds-largest-underground-copper-mine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/2606527\/","title":{"rendered":"Chile: All five missing workers confirmed dead after the collapse at world\u2019s largest underground copper mine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-block-key=\"sqtdr\">\u201cAll five missing miners confirmed dead after Chile copper mine collapse\u201d, 3 August 2025<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"9i2h9\">All five trapped workers who were missing in a collapsed shaft in the world\u2019s biggest underground copper mine have been found dead, an official said on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"etuvr\">\u2026<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"7q6a\">The five miners \u2013 Gonzalo N\u00fa\u00f1ez, Jean Miranda, Alex Araya, Carlos Arancibia, and P\u00e1vez were trapped deep inside Chile\u2019s El Teniente mine on Thursday after a section collapsed following a 4.2 magnitude earthquake that instantly killed miner Paulo Mar\u00edn and injured nine other workers.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"1johh\">\u2026<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"ajkfq\">Authorities are investigating whether it was a naturally occurring earthquake or whether mining activity at El Teniente caused the tremor. Chilean prosecutors also launched a criminal investigation to determine whether any safety standards were violated.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"59i2t\">\u2026<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"cdsom\">El Teniente, located in the Andes mountains in central Chile, is the world\u2019s largest underground copper mine and is owned by state company Codelco.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"74tq5\">Shortly after Thursday\u2019s collapse, Codelco halted operations in the affected section of the mine and evacuated 3,000 people from the broader site to safe areas.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"7kfuj\">The company cancelled a presentation of its first-half financial results, set for Friday morning, due to the rescue efforts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAll five missing miners confirmed dead after Chile copper mine collapse\u201d, 3 August 2025 All five trapped work<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2606528,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[785166],"tags":[40357,40356],"class_list":{"0":"post-2606527","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chile","8":"tag-chile","9":"tag-40356"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/wakoka.com\/@news\/114991009953390338","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2606527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2606527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2606527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2606528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2606527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2606527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2606527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}