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• Aug. 11: Robert Murray, founder and chairman of Cleveland-based Murray Energy Corp, is interviewed while wearing his mine outfit.
• Aug. 11: Robert Murray, founder and chairman of Cleveland-based Murray Energy Corp., stands between two unidentified miners inside the Crandall Canyon Mine northwest of Huntington, Utah.
• Aug. 8: Robert Murray, founder and chairman of Cleveland-based Murray Energy Corp., looks on during a tour of the Crandall Canyon Mine near the block tunnel where six coal miners are trapped northwest of Huntington, Utah.
• Aug. 8: A rescuer walks in the blocked tunnel in the Crandall Canyon Mine where six coal miners are trapped northwest of Huntington, Utah.
• Aug. 8: A scoop transports Rok Props near the blocked tunnel in the Crandall Canyon Mine where six coal miners are trapped northwest of Huntington, Utah.
• Aug. 8: A pick-up truck pulls out of the tunnel where six coal miners are trapped at the Crandall Canyon Mine northwest of Huntington, Utah.
• Aug. 8: Rescuers walk past a Roof Bolter near the blocked tunnel in the Crandall Canyon Mine where six coal miners are trapped northwest of Huntington, Utah.
• Aug. 8: Robert Murray, founder and chairman of Cleveland-based Murray Energy Corp., points to rubble blocking a tunnel in the Crandall Canyon Mine where six coal miners are trapped northwest of Huntington, Utah.
• Aug. 8: Misty Sherman and her 3-year-old daughter, Eminie Sherman, attend a candlelight vigil for the six miners trapped in a cave-in near Huntington, Utah, at the rodeo grounds in Huntington on Wednesday night.
• Aug. 8: The word "hope" is spelled out with candles during a vigil for the trapped miners in Huntington, Utah.
• Aug. 8: Jan Mann kisses her 2-year-old son, Paxten, during a candlelight vigil for the trapped miners in Huntington, Utah.
• Aug. 8: Coal is piled up at the Crandall Canyon Mine during a tour showing rescue efforts for six trapped coal miners.
• Aug. 8: From left, Jim Reed, Rocky Conner, and Shey Erickson pray during a special Mass at the Catholic Diocese of Salt Lake City. The Mass was held for the six trapped coal miners at the Crandall Canyon mine.
• Aug. 8: Two drill rigs stand atop the back chambers of the underground Crandall Canyon Mine on northwest of Huntington, Utah.
• Aug. 8: Robert Murray, founder and chairman of Cleveland-based Murray Energy Corp., gives an update at a morning briefing on the rescue efforts for six trapped coal miners at the Crandall Canyon Mine northwest of Huntington, Utah.
• Aug. 8: Medicine Man Lonnie Tallhorse Lister prays for the six trapped coal miners and their families near the entrance of the Crandall Canyon Mine northwest of Huntington, Utah.
• Aug. 8: Workers unload equipment to drill a hole into the rear chambers of the Crandall Canyon Mine northwest of Huntington, Utah. Six coal miners have been trapped since Monday.
• Aug. 6: Rescue crews rush to the area where six miners are trapped in a mine.
• Aug. 6: Trapped miners await rescue crews.
• Aug. 6: Miners believed to be 1,500 feet below ground.
• Aug 6: Mine equipment arrives to help in the rescue of six trapped coal miners at the entrance to his Crandall Canyon Mine.
• Aug 6: A map of the Crandall Canyon Mine.
• Aug. 6: A mother and daughter, left, check on the status of her dad and the child's grandfather, one of six trapped coal miners in the Crandall Canyon Mine, at the senior center in Huntington, Utah.
• Aug. 6: Doug Johnson, center, director of corporate services at an affiliated company, Utah American Energy, speaks to the media about the efforts to reach six trapped miners at the Crandall Canyon mine in Huntington, Utah.
• Aug. 6: An unidentified woman sits outside of the Emery County Senior Citizens Huntington Center to make a phone call in Huntington, Utah, after a mine collapsed.
• Aug. 6: A Utah Highway patrolman mans the checkpoint near the mine site where a command post has been set up to deal with the mine collapse in Huntington, Utah.
• Aug. 6: Utah Highway Patrolman Sgt. R. Warren Nelson mans the checkpoint at the entrance to the mine site where a command post has been set up to deal with the mine collapse in Huntington, Utah.
• Aug. 6: Jason Nichols moves his boots to make room for another as they go to help in the rescue of six trapped coal miners at the entrance to the Crandall Canyon Mine on northwest of Huntington, Utah.
• Aug. 6: Doug Johnson, director of corporate services for Murray Energy Corp., talks about the six trapped coal miners at the entrance to the Crandall Canyon Mine on northwest of Huntington, Utah.
• Aug. 6: Family, friends and coworkers of trapped miners gather in Huntington, Utah, at the Emery County Senior Citizens Huntington Center Monday.
• Aug. 6: Mine equipment arrives to help in the rescue of six trapped coal miners at the entrance to his Crandall Canyon Mine in Huntington, Utah.
• Aug. 6: Robert E. Murray, founder and chairman of Cleveland based Murray Energy Corp, points on a map to where six trapped coal miners are believed to be at the entrance to his Crandall Canyon Mine on northwest of Huntington, Utah.