{"id":84660,"date":"2025-08-01T11:48:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T06:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/?p=84660"},"modified":"2025-08-01T11:48:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T06:48:14","slug":"one-dead-five-missing-in-chilean-copper-mine-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/one-dead-five-missing-in-chilean-copper-mine-collapse\/","title":{"rendered":"One dead, five missing in Chilean copper mine collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SANTIAGO: At least one worker was killed and five others were missing after a copper mine collapse in Chile triggered by an earthquake on Thursday, state-owned operator Codelco said.<\/p>\n<p>Nine others were injured \u2014 none critically \u2014 after the magnitude 4.2 earthquake struck at 5:34 p.m. (2134 GMT) in the world\u2019s largest underground copper mine, El Teniente (\u201cThe Lieutenant\u201c), Codelco said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCodelco reports the death this afternoon of our colleague Paulo Marin Tapia,\u201d it said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>El Teniente is located in the city of Rancagua, about 100 kilometers (62 miles) from the capital Santiago.<\/p>\n<p>The United States Geological Survey reported a shallow magnitude 5.0 earthquake about 35 kilometers from Rancagua at 2134 GMT.<\/p>\n<p>Rescuers were working to enter the collapsed area, and \u201cwe have already reached some of them,\u201d Maximo Pacheco, president of Codelco, told Cooperativa radio.<\/p>\n<p>Chile is the world\u2019s leading copper producer and mines nearly a quarter of the global supply.<\/p>\n<p>The valuable metal is used in wiring, motors and renewable energy generation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SANTIAGO: At least one worker was killed and five others were missing after a copper mine collapse in Chile triggered by an earthquake on Thursday, state-owned operator Codelco said. Nine others were injured \u2014 none critically \u2014 after the magnitude 4.2 earthquake struck at 5:34 p.m. (2134 GMT) in the world\u2019s largest underground copper mine, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":84661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84662,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84660\/revisions\/84662"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}