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AussieMiners.sPubDate = "5/8/2006 8:10:35 PM GMT";
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AussieMiners.appHeader = "timeline | Trapped Australian miners";
AussieMiners.appFooter = "Source: Associated Press";
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AussieMiners[i-1].body = "A 2.1 magnitude earthquake triggers rock fall at 9:23 p.m. in the century-old Beaconsfield Gold Mine on southern Australian island state of Tasmasina. Of 17 miners underground, 14 escape unhurt. Three are trapped.";

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AussieMiners[i-1].body = "Remote-controlled earth-mover begins clearing tons of rock 3,000 feet underground.";

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AussieMiners[i-1].body = "Body of Larry Knight, 44, is found. Search continues for Brant Webb, 37, and Todd Russell, 34. Rescuers begin blasting from nearby tunnel.";

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AussieMiners[i-1].body = "Contact made with Webb and Russell at 5:45 p.m. after thermal imaging cameras detect their body heat and a microphone picks up their voices. Their families and residents celebrate.";

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AussieMiners[i-1].body = "Rescuers pass the pair biscuits through a narrow pipe forced through a crevice. Water, food, vitamins, space blankets, fresh clothing and batteries for their headlamps follow.";

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AussieMiners[i-1].body = "Doctors say both men in good spirits and have only minor scratches to their hands from trying to dig themselves out.";

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AussieMiners[i-1].body = "Webb and Russell receive toiletries, notes from their families, iPods and their first solid food. Rescuers install machine to cut rescue tunnel.";

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AussieMiners[i-1].body = "Teams complete narrow tunnel to guide larger drilling head. At 8 p.m. start boring 52-foot-long escape tunnel.";

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AussieMiners[i-1].body = "Drilling continues at rate of about 18 inches an hour.";

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AussieMiners[i-1].body = "Rescuers begin cutting final 10 feet of rock. Hundreds gather at the mine gates in hopes of welcoming the men.";

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AussieMiners[i-1].body = "Less than six feet from the trapped men, rescuers switch to hand drills to avoid cave-in. Local TV journalist Richard Carleton, 62, dies of a heart attack shortly after questioning mine manager at news conference.";

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AussieMiners[i-1].body = "Workers free Webb and Russell after blasting through the last foot of hard rock.";

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