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The three workers who were trapped for more than 60 hours in the Red Chris mine in northern B.C. are being reunited with their families Friday morning following a successful rescue operation ...

Mine company Newmont Corp. said that the workers have enough air, food and water for an extended stay, although their communications were cut off after the second cave-in.

Three contract workers at Newmont's Red Chris copper and gold mine in British Columbia were rescued after being trapped underground for 60 hours, the company said on Friday.

The mine is mostly open pit, but Newmont said in an earlier statement that development of underground block-cave mining began in 2019, four years after the mine’s first production date.