Armed with only a lantern and basic tools, Aladino Olivares crawls down a crude mine shaft little more than three feet high inside a mountain near CopiapĆ³ in Chile's northern Atacama Desert. He does this so often that he doesn't wear a helmet anymore, only a stocking cap holding a pack of cigarettes and two lighters. "It's just a little bit farther," Olivares, 58, says about two hundred feet down. At three hundred feet, he slides into a parallel shaft. The only ceiling supports are rocks that he's stacked over the years. "Right there, that's the vein..."Rico says there's more to the article, but Time is making it a nuisance to see, sorry...
01 March 2011
Another job Rico's happy he doesn't have
Aaron Nelsen has an article at Time.com about a really lousy job:
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