A seventh borehole being drilled into the mountain is expected to punch through into the mine at 1,865 feet. Yet after 25 days, some families are beginning to acknowledge their loved ones may be dead. The families hope today will provide a miracle.

This comment from six miner family trapped in underground in the Crandall Canyon Mine.

“It’s tough,” Sonny Olsen, a spokesman for the miners’ families, said Wednesday. One family member even told him: “Every day we come here and just get kicked in the teeth.”

“They know the odds of survival are very low at this point,” Olsen said. “I think they’re beginning to come to grips with that, but they have not lost hope. I still see hope in some of their eyes. But they know the odds.”

Federal mine safety officials said :

It is still too dangerous to go underground because of seismic activity. It was a 3.9-magnitude event that caused the Aug. 6 collapse, trapping miners Luis Hernandez, Manuel Sanchez, Don Erickson, Carlos Payan, Brandon Phillips and Kerry Allred. On Aug. 16, a pressure-shifting mountain “bump” that registered 1.6 on the Richter scale killed three rescuers and injured six.