Utah mine: Timeline of events
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Sunday, Aug. 19: Officials extinguished nearly all hope of finding any of the six miners alive on Sunday, nearly two weeks after the men were trapped in a violent collapse deep with a mine. Richard Strickler (right), Assistant Secretary of the Dept. of Labor and director of Mine Safety & Health Administration, and Rob Moore (left), vice president of Murray Energy, at a news conference at the entrance to the Crandall Canyon Mine.

Sunday, Aug. 19:

Officials extinguished nearly all hope of finding any of the six miners alive on Sunday, nearly two weeks after the men were trapped in a violent collapse deep with a mine.


Richard Strickler (right), Assistant Secretary of the Dept. of Labor and director of Mine Safety & Health Administration, and Rob Moore (left), vice president of Murray Energy, at a news conference at the entrance to the Crandall Canyon Mine.
(AP Photo / Jae C. Hong)