Three miners have been trapped underground at British Columbia’s Red Chris copper and gold mine. B.C. Premier David Eby released the news at the end of the premiers’ gathering in Ontario. Eby said to the best of the government’s knowledge the workers are uninjured and in a refuge area at the mine in B.C.’s northern Interior.

The eyes of many are on a northern British Columbia gold and copper mine as rescue efforts are underway to free three contractors trapped underground. This is not the first