On August 6 2007 a mine in Utah, caved in. About several hundred feet underground and a mile or two in from the entrance. If the distances are off please forgive me. I've not been able to keep up on all the details. I do remember that the company president "Bob" was promising to find the miners dead or alive and go get them. Then after a few days/weeks of rescue tunneling another cave in occurred, called mountain bump, where the walls imploded killing three on the rescue tunneling party and effectively terminating the underground rescue tunneling efforts.

Verticle efforts in the form of mineshaft drilling boreholes have been made. Progress is slow there as well, but they are now using a robot/camera similar to the one used in the World Trade Center rescue/salvage operation to locate the miners. So far the success of that robot/camera have been mixed.

Nobody has heard from the miners since the original date but we are closing in on a month since the initial cave in. Has this story been dropped from the major news outlets because of the remote chance these guys are alive, the lack of telegenic TV on "Bob's" part, or lack of progress in the rescue effort do to setback after setback?

I'm curious because I can't find hardly any news on this except locally in Utah, or my local news, which usually isn't the best source of information.

Comments/News links welcome.