▲ Civil Protection met with US experts to validate strategy.Darkroom Photo
Leopold Ramos
Correspondent
Newspaper La Jornada
Thursday, August 18, 2022, p. 13
Sabinas, Coah., Yesterday, 14 days after the tragedy at the El Pinabete mine, international specialists arrived in Sabinas to support the rescue efforts of the 10 miners who were trapped after a flood.
Earlier this week, the National Civil Protection Coordination announced that it would request support from companies and organizations in the United States and Germany to provide strategies that would promote the rescue of workers.
Experts from the company Phoenix First Response will meet with engineers from Minerales Monclova, owned by Grupo Acerero del Norte, to review the situation at the mine and the options to save the miners.
Grupo Acerero del Norte is owned by Alonso Ancira Elizondo, who was accused by Petróleos Mexicanos of selling the Agronitrogenated fertilizer plant at a premium, in a lawsuit from which the businessman was released after a settlement agreement.
On its social networks, Phoenix First Response offers mining and tunnel construction companies prevention programs and emergency response services.
The authorities also established communication with a German firm that will receive information about the vent and then send its comments on the work that has been carried out since August 3, when the excavation was flooded.
In addition, geophysical survey work is being carried out, which will provide data on the subsoil and the mines in the area. On the other hand, the Secretariat of the Navy-Navy of Mexico carried out flights with a drone in order to obtain high-resolution photographs and digital models of the terrain.
The Unified Command of the Rescue Team, in which federal and state authorities participate, reported that pumping work continues, with the capacity to extract around 45,000 cubic meters of water per day.
