Efforts increase to rescue 3 miners trapped in Sinaloa for 2 weeks

The Command Post that coordinates the rescue efforts of the three workers at the Santa Fe mine reported on the status of the operations and the technical variables detected.

The interior of the site, with a depth of 300 meters and a horizontal extension of 3.2 kilometerspresents an accumulation of tailings in all of its tunnels and ramps, as well as the presence of water in the lower levels.

In the so-called zone zero, an electric pumping system is maintained in continuous operation. 25 horsepower designed for the management of seepage and runoff.

Engineers are working on optimizing the mechanical system and evaluating the incorporation of a second pumping unit to increase the liquid removal volume.

As a complementary strategy to access the point of interest, maneuvers were initiated in counterhole 50.

Since Monday night, non-public from the Secretariat of National Defense (Defense) and the Secretariat of the Navy (Semar) carried out a vertical descent using ropes to carry out cleaning tasks and verify if the conduit is operable.

During the work, sedimentary field matter was removed and a depth of water was detected, that is, a flooding depth of 40 centimeters.

For this reason, the Command Post determined to modify the intervention strategy to adapt the search methods to the hydraulic and geological variables of the mine.

On March 26, Mexican authorities reported the incident that occurred the previous day, which It occurred due to the collapse of a tailings dam at the mine in which 25 workers were found. carrying out excavations.

From that group, 21 miners managed to escape unharmed by their own meanswhile four people were trapped. One of them was rescued alive more than 100 hours later.

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