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Aug 12, 09:40 AM

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A SECOND drill broke through early yesterday to a Utah mine shaft where officials hope to find six workers who were trapped when the Crandall Canyon mine collapsed.

The hole cleared the way for a video camera to be lowered in an effort to provide the first answers to the miners' fate.

Nearly 9in wide, the hole reached the mine shaft between 2am and 3am, said Bob Murray, chief of mine co-owner Murray Energy Corp. Crews were removing the heavy drill steel and planned to send down the camera within a few hours.

There has been no word from the miners since the mine collapsed early on Monday.

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