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Miner Claudio Yanez applauds as he is carried away on a stretcher after being rescued from the collapsed San Jose mine where he had been trapped with 32 other miners for over two months in 2010 near Copiapo, Chile.
For the miners buried alive in the depths of a gold-and-copper mine in Chile, the meager rations probably didn't silence their rumbling stomachs, but they did help keep them alive for an incredible 17 days until the outside world learned the good news: against most odds, all 33 miners were still alive.