{"id":167884,"date":"2025-09-25T07:18:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T07:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/167884\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T07:18:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T07:18:07","slug":"23-miners-rescued-after-43-hours-trapped-in-colombian-gold-mine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/167884\/","title":{"rendered":"23 miners rescued after 43 hours trapped in Colombian gold mine"},"content":{"rendered":"

BOGOTA, Colombia — Twenty-three workers were rescued Wednesday after spending 43 hours trapped in a collapsed underground gold mine<\/a> in northern Colombia. The miners were met with applause as they emerged from the La Reliquia mine, located in the Antioquia department.<\/p>\n

Colombia’s National Mining Agency reported that the main entrance to the mine had collapsed on Monday due to a \u201cgeomechanical failure.\u201d A video released by the ANM shows the first rescued miners walking out under their own power, using a rope to climb the steep entrance to the shaft. Their health status was not immediately disclosed.<\/p>\n

The miners\u2019 families had been waiting for hours and celebrated their rescue with tears and applause.<\/p>\n

The mine is on land belonging to Canada’s Aris Mining Corp. but is operated by a local mining cooperative. Aris Mining said earlier that it had provided the trapped workers with food, water and ventilation during the rescue efforts. The mine has about 60 employees and accounts for a \u201csmall portion\u201d of the company\u2019s total gold production in the area.<\/p>\n

Aris runs two mining concessions in Colombia, which last year produced about 6.6 tons of gold. Colombia\u2019s gold production climbed to 67 tons per year in 2024, supported by high prices for the precious metal.<\/p>\n

A report published in 2023 by Colombia\u2019s Human Rights Ombudsman said that more than 80% of Colombia\u2019s gold is mined by informal operators<\/a> with no licenses, including artisanal miners but also members of rebel groups.<\/p>\n

The precarious conditions at some gold mines in Colombia have led to fatal accidents. On Saturday the bodies of seven miners were found at an illegal mine in Cauca province. Rescue teams took nine days<\/a> to reach the trapped workers.<\/p>\n

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Follow AP\u2019s coverage of Latin America and the Caribbean at https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/latin-america<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BOGOTA, Colombia — Twenty-three workers were rescued Wednesday after spending 43 hours trapped in a collapsed underground gold…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167885,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[86449,1331,45,49,48,2841,86448,883],"class_list":{"0":"post-167884","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-86449","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-ca","12":"tag-canada","13":"tag-general-news","14":"tag-mining-accidents","15":"tag-world-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}