A video camera lowered into a Utah mine where six workers have been missing for more than five days shows “survivable space”, but attempts to signal the miners were met by silence.

A video camera lowered into the mine where six miners have been missing for more than five days shows “survivable space”, a US official said today.

A second drill broke through to a Utah mine shaft today and a video camera was lowered inside, searching for the fate of six miners believed to be trapped nearly 2,000 feet below.

The massive rescue effort to find six coal miners caught in a cave-in took a disheartening turn when a narrow hole drilled more than 1,800ft into the earth yielded no sounds of life and barely any oxygen.

A TINY microphone lowered deep into the earth yesterday picked up no evidence six coal miners caught in a cave-in four days ago were still alive.

A tiny microphone lowered deep into the earth this morning picked up no evidence that six coal miners are alive four days after they were caught in a cave-in.

A state commission is to examine mine safety and recommend changes to prevent accidents like the one that trapped nine men in a flooded coal mine for more than three days.