Natural air is flowing to the area where three contractors are trapped in a northern British Columbia mine, the operator’s safety chief said, adding that there appears to be a stable rescue route to them behind the massive rockfall that cut them off.
Bernard Wessels, global safety head for Newmont Corp., would not say how long he expected the contractors’ rescue to take, but “from a timing perspective we are confident.”
The workers trapped in the Red Chris mine, about 500 kilometres northwest of Terrace, B.C., have been identified by their employer as Kevin Coumbs of Ontario, Darien Maduke of B.C. and Jesse Chubaty of Manitoba.
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