Thirty-three miners who have been trapped underground in a northern Chile mine for the past 17 ... in many cities took to the streets to celebrate, cars sounded their horns, flags were flown ...

Gallery: Chile miners arrive in Los Angeles Chilean miners ... the visit was a double celebration -- because they experienced the birth of their first grandchild, Emily Sofia Studer, born Wednesday.

Miners urge Chile to cut red tape for copper expansion, citing fierce competition and potential loss of leadership position.

COPIAPO, Chile, Oct 16 (AFP) -Thirty-one of the 33 miners ... head home and ponder tempting offers of holidays and cash. The gritty mining town of Copiapo erupted into wild celebration as neighbors ...

Chile's Indigenous communities in the lithium-rich Atacama Desert are in talks with two of the nation's biggest miners to ...

A guard gate blocks access to the San José mine site rescue operations in northern Chile on Tuesday, October 12, 2010. One of countless tributes to the trapped miners marks the side of the road ...

A massive power blackout struck much of Chile on Tuesday, leaving residents of the capital Santiago without electricity and interrupting mining operations in the world's biggest copper producing ...

Compania Minera San Esteban Primera, the firm that ran the mine in Chile where 33 miners are currently trapped, claims it might have to declare bankruptcy, due to lack of income from the mine and ...

With no breakthrough in sight in the testy negotiations, the miners' union decided to invoke an article of Chilean labor law that allows them to keep their old contract for another 18 months ...