on this day 10 years ago, Chile‘s 33 trapped miners cheered and embraced each other in the darkness as a drill punched into the underground chamber where they had been stuck for an agonizing 66 days while the world me together to engineer a rescue. 

Sad Fact! Workers at the state mining company Codelco said they would chip in about $600. While a relatively high-paying profession here, a successful miner in Chile usually cannot expect much more than about $2,000 a month in salary.