Pictured: Relatives and co-workers set Chilean flags outside a collapsed mine where about 33 miners have been trapped for over a week in Copiapo, Chile, Friday, Aug. 13, 2010.
Chile's mining minister says rescuers hope that probes they are drilling will reach 33 trapped miners by Monday.
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The workers have been trapped by an Aug. 5 collapse at the San Jose gold and silver mine in northern Chile. Rescuers have had no contact with them.
If the miners are found alive, rescuers will lower water, oxygen and a system of communication through the newly drilled holes.
Source: The Associated Press
