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♪ >> jim harrison: time sinks slowly to the deepest part of the ocean, the mariana trench. shes tired of light and there its pure black. >> anthony: they say that butte is a mile high and a mile deep, and to get an idea of what they mean youve got to go down. down deep into the hill. an intricate warren of tunnels whittled through the rock and soil that lay beneath the city was flooded forever by water and darkness. the orphan boy mine is one of the few remaining hard rock mines in the city. t...

>> jim harrison: time sinks slowly to the deepest part of the ocean; the mariana trench. shes tired of light and there its pure black. >> anthony: they say that butte is a mile high and a mile deep, and to get an idea of what they mean you got to go down. down deep into the hill. an intricate warren of tunnels whittled through the rock and soil that lay beneath the city was flooded forever by water and darkness. the orphan boy mine is one of the few remaining hard rock mines in the city. today i...

Its pure black. >> anthony: they say that butte is a mile high and a mile deep, and to get an idea of what they mean you got to go down. down deep into the hill. an intricate warren of tunnels whittled through the rock and soil that lay beneath the city was flooded forever by water and darkness. the orphan boy mine is one of the few remaining hard rock mines in the city. today it serves as a training facility for the montana tech school of mines and engineering. >> jim keane: theres five generat...

>> anthony: they say that butte is a mile high and a mile deep, and to get an idea of what they mean you got to go down. down deep into the hill. an intricate warren of tunnels whittled through the rock and soil that lay beneath the city was flooded forever by water and darkness. the orphan boy mine is one of the few remaining hard rock mines in the city. today it serves as a training facility for the montana tech school of mines and engineering. >> jim keane: theres five generations of mining h...

Theyre proud to be chilean, and even prouder to be miners. you can see things down here have changed he says. in this new video sent to the surface mine mario sepulveda goes through the cabin half a mile deep, showing how he and his 32 comrades are holding up. since rescuers found the men alive ten days ago, survival rations have been delivered by narrow bore holes. these metal tubes, miners are getting flood, water, medicine, clean clothes and even music on mp3 players. the music has arrived, a...

We know and we have the green light now to proceed with the well integrity test. so, they have stopped collecting, i guess this means that they have stopped collecting oil on the top, is that right? >> yes. they have stopped the ships that were sucking the oil from down below through very long pipes, a mile deep, all of the way down to the bottom of the blowout preventer, and they had attached lines, hoses, if you will to the blowout preventer, and to the choke and the kill valves down below and...

I was just down there last week, and theres a sense there that people who make their living off an actual environment from working with a natural environment, theres a lot of despair. theres -- this is 13 times more oil, according to the estimates, than the "exxon valdez" released. its being released a mile deep, as everyone knows by now. the normal processes that break down oil, the sun, the waves, the microbes, nobody knows how well theyre going to work because the ocean is layered, and a lot ...

In now and do something to conserve this precious resource. and i think thats what we can do now. >> jeff: is an oil spill like this to someone like you, is it heartbreaking? or is it. >> yes. >> jeff: it is? >> its heartbreaking. its heartbreaking to see. but when youre drilling a mile deep, and, you know, with these kind of situations, we have to go further and further to get the oil. you know, well never run out of oil. we really wont. well go broke trying to get to it and go into more and mo...

In now and do something to conserve this precious resource. and i think thats what we can do now. >> jeff: is an oil spill like this to someone like you, is it heartbreaking? or is it. >> yes. >> jeff: it is? >> its heartbreaking. its heartbreaking to see. but when youre drilling a mile deep, and, you know, with these kind of situations, we have to go further and further to get the oil. you know, well never run out of oil. we really wont. well go broke trying to get to it and go into more and mo...

>> all i can say we wont stop trying, were going to come up with more ap get this thing before the relief well gets down and we will keep trying. >> now, the long-term fix still remains at that second relief well, but again, juliet, that could take up to three months. >> well, i guess the billion dollar question, million dollar question, any idea when they might get some control of the situation? >> yeah, you know, there are just so many variables to be completely honest with you, they hope that...