{"id":183247,"date":"2022-08-01T07:27:06","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T11:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/?p=183247"},"modified":"2022-08-01T09:32:46","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T13:32:46","slug":"miners-trapped-in-cerros-de-maimon-mine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2022\/08\/01\/miners-trapped-in-cerros-de-maimon-mine\/","title":{"rendered":"Miners trapped in Cerros de Maim\u00f3n mine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Mineros-Atrapados-en-Cerro-de-Maimon-El-Dinero-1024x653.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-183370\" width=\"600\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><br>The Corporacion Minera Dominicana (Cormidom) reports that rescue efforts are underway to reach the Colombian Carlos Yepez Ospina and Dominican Gregores Mendez Torres, the two miners caught inside a mine in Cerros de Maim\u00f3n after a landslide on the dawn of Sunday, 31 July 2022. The miners were working 95 meters from the impacted area. A company statement says the miners are well and in good spirits as they await to be rescued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The copper, gold and silver mine is the country\u2019s first underground mining exploitation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the second accident affecting workers at the underground mine in the past 12 months. An earlier accident occurred on 7 December 2021 when Dominican worker Jose Manuel Fernandez Marinez lost his life trapped in a landslide. His corpse was recovered 13 days afterward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zhongjin Lingnan, the Chinese mining company, acquired the Cerro de Maimon mine, becoming the first Chinese company to make large-scale investments in the country. The Chinese firm has reported investing over US$230 million in the underground venture. Shenzhen Zhongjin Lingnan Nonfemet Co. Ltd. is a China-based company principally engaged in the mining, dressing, smelting, processing, production and sale of non-ferrous metals, such as lead, zinc and copper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/actualidad\/nacional\/2022\/07\/31\/mineros-cormidom-siguen-vivos-pese-derrumbe\/1981105\">Diario Libre <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/eldinero.com.do\/76048\/cormidom-inaugura-primera-mina-subterranea-de-rd\/\">El Dinero <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1 August 2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Corporacion Minera Dominicana (Cormidom) reports that rescue efforts are underway to reach the Colombian Carlos Yepez Ospina and Dominican Gregores Mendez Torres, the two miners caught inside a mine in Cerros de Maim\u00f3n after a landslide on the dawn of Sunday, 31 July 2022. The miners were working 95 meters from the impacted area. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2022\/08\/01\/miners-trapped-in-cerros-de-maimon-mine\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[293,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183247"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183247"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183372,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183247\/revisions\/183372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}