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.

Three workers who were trapped in a remote northern British Columbia mine have been rescued after more than 60 hours underground. Red Chris mine operator Newmont Corp. said the three men were safely bought to the surface at about 10:40 p.

The director of Chile’s El Teniente copper mine says the bodies of four out of five miners who had been trapped in a collapsed section of the mine since Thursday have been found

The five miners were trapped deep inside Chile's El Teniente mine on Thursday after a section of the mine collapsed following a 4.2 magnitude earthquake.

Rescue teams had been searching for the trapped workers for days after the partial collapse of El Teniente, one of the world’s largest copper mines.

Some 100 people were involved in search for workers at El Teniente copper mine, the world’s largest underground mine.