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Aronson, Marc. Fountain, Daniel. Franklin, Jonathan Simons, Donna Searight. Tobar, HéctorSummary: In 2010, the eyes of the world turned to Chile, where 33 miners had been buried alive by the catastrophic explosion and collapse of a 100-year-old gold and copper mine. Over the next 69 days, an international team worked night and day in a desperate attempt to rescue the trapped men as their families and friends, as well as millions of people globally, waited and watched anxiously for any sign...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD 33 RATED PG-13Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA THIAronson, Marc.
Summary: "The amazing story of the Chilean miners and their incredible rescue!"-- Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 363.11 AROFranklin, Jonathan
Summary: This is the account of the 2010 San Jose mine rescue in Chile, after one of the longest human entrapments in history. With his coveted "rescue pass," the author was permitted access far past the police perimeter. It would be seventeen long days before the miners were discovered alive and the world press descended. It would be another fifty-two days before the miners were all successfully...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.11 FRATobar, Héctor
Summary: A Pulitzer Prize winning journalist relates the experiences of the thirty-three men who endured entrapment beneath thousands of feet of rock for a record-breaking sixty-nine days during the San José mine collapse outside of Copiapó, Chile, in August 2010.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 983 TOBCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 983 TOBSimons, Donna Searight.
Summary: "In 1913, Paul Weyburn and his fellow copper miners have tolerated dangerous working conditions for too long. Some of their workmates are being maimed or killed thousands of feet underground. . .which one of them will be next? Paul leads some of the miners on a labor strike to bring attention to the dangers of blasting and drilling copper for low pay. Marie, his wife, struggles to raise their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Empire Publishing 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SIMCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: P SIMFountain, Daniel.
Contents: Early gold and silver discoveries -- The 1860s silver lead rush -- The Ontonagon County silver rush -- The Ropes gold mine -- The Michigan gold mine -- Michigan Range prospects -- Ropes Range prospects -- The Dead River Gold Range -- Other Marquette County prospects -- Baraga, Iron and Dickinson County prospects -- Gogebic Range gold and silver mines -- Placer mining -- Fables and frauds --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013