Rescuers trying to find six miners will begin boring a sixth hole down into Utah's Crandall Canyon mine Friday, and the search will stop if no signs of life are found, the coal mine's co-owner said. "This is the last hole," Bob Murray, CEO of Murray Energy, said Wednesday evening. "If we don't find anybody alive in that hole, there's nowhere else that anyone ... would know where to drill."Murray said work on the sixth hole, which will go down into the area where the miners were known to be working when the mine collapsed August 6, should be completed by Saturday.
However, he expressed little optimism that the effort would be successful, saying it was "totally unlikely" any signs of the miners will be found.
Murray also said that he has already filed paperwork with federal regulators to permanently close and seal the Utah mine.
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