Six miners are trapped and rescuers are trying to reach them by Ana Maria Ciobanu

Six miners had been trapped for more than a day in a mine built into a mountain in the rugged Manti-La Sal National Forest, 140 miles south of Salt Lake City. Rescuers bulldozed a mountain path Tuesday to erect a seismic listening device outside the mine trying to establish contact, according to one of the mine's owners. Once the device will be in place, crews will set off dynamite, hoping the men will hear it and tap with the hammers in the ceiling. The miners are trapped at more than 1,500 feet underground. Rescuers say the efforts to get them out will last at least three days and unfortunately they don't even know if the men are still alive. If the operations will go well, after three days, the rescuers will have only a 2-inch hole into the chamber through which they're supposed o communicate with the trapped miners and give them water, food or air. According to Robert E. Murray, chairman of Murray Energy Corp. of Cleveland, 30 pieces of "massive" mining equipment and 134 people are dedicated to the rescuing operations. He also stated that the tragedy happened because of an earthquake and denied that the miners were using a dangerous method called retreat mining. Let's hope the men will survive and will be rescued from the mountain trap in time and live the officials investigate the reasons of this tragedy.

by Ana Maria Ciobanu for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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