When informing an audience of news of any sort it is extremely important to make sure to please the audiences and inform the audience of the details that are available. In the article “Over 30 Workers Trapped After Chilean Copper Mine Collapse” the writer, Juan Weik, is straight to the point giving some details to the matter at hand. Weik doesn’t go to far in depth in his details just stating facts on what is happening. Weik is writing this to inform everyone of the incident including fellow workers
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being supplied by copper. The addition of copper produces red and pink golds, while deep yellow gold is practically 100% pure and "white gold" is often a gold alloy containing nickel and palladium. Pure - or 1,000 thousandths - gold is equivalent to 24 carats, but gold is generally used as an alloy because it is such a soft metal. The jewellers' terms "fine gold" and "pure gold" mean 920 and 840 thousandth alloys respectively, the balance being supplied by copper. The addition of copper produces red
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company has to deal with a disaster, outcome, and the aftermath of it. A good example of this is the disaster for the Chilean copper miners in South America. In a Chilean copper mine a disastrous collapse of one of the shafts left 33 miners trapped 310 meters below the surface. This disaster made knowing and understanding their audience extremely important to the mine owners. The audience’s for the company to report to at this time were made up of news correspondence, the victim’s families, and
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Week 4 Assignment Knowing Your Audience BCOM/275 Knowing Your Audience August 5, 2010. A little copper mine situated in Chile experienced a cave-in that made thirty three (33) miners to be caught below the ground. The miners having been caught three hundred (300) meters beneath the ground with inadequate, water, oxygen and food, not a soul made out for certain whereby the miners will stay alive. With 4 (four) long days of being caught underground, there still was no suggestion that anyone
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Announcement March 17, 2014 As a spokesperson for the company, I would like to provide the family member of the trapped Chilean miners with and update. The San Jose gold and copper mine where 33 miners were working has collapse. It took 17 days, but we finally made contact with the miners and were able to lower the probe into the mine and make contact with the miners. After the contact was made we are attempting to send a narrow plastic tube down the narrow borehole to provide the miners with food, hydration
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Knowing Your Audience Paper BCOM 275 Jackie Crawford April 21st 2014 No one could have guessed that a small town in northern Chili would have become such a hot topic in the news in August 2010. After a cave-in occurred in the San Jose mine, the story went national and everyone was reading about the tragedy across the globe. Thirty three people had been trapped underground and a fairy tale happy ending did not seem probable. Rescue workers started drilling holes in the area to reach the
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Resource: “Over 30 Workers Trapped After Chilean Copper Mine Collapse” article found in the Electronic Reserve Readings. Research additional articles and information about the Chilean mine collapse. There was much press coverage of this disaster. Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper using this (the assigned article) and other articles as a resource. Because communications must be designed with the audience in mind, answer the following questions: • What are some considerations to
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Communication Release Patricia Brooks BCOM/275 Date Melinda Maldonado Knowing Your Audience Paper and Communication Release Knowing the audience and using the right communication release is vital in any catastrophe. For example, the Chilean copper mine disaster in South America, which left 33 miners trapped 300 feet underground fighting for their lives. Chilean miners had limited water, food, oxygen, and the chance for survival was slim. Fortunately, in this catastrophe the tears turn into screams
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Owned and operated by Minera San Esteban, a portion of San Jose mine collapsed trapping 33 workers underground and their conditions are unknown. Rescue efforts are being coordinated with the office of the Minister of Mining and we should cooperate with their efforts as directed by management. The company has every confidence in the miner’s training, ventilation systems and the collaborative rescue efforts. The cause of the collapse will be determined after the rescue of each trapped miner. In light
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suspected associates of paramilitary in Colombia. In the Congo, while international law prohibits anyone under 18 working in a mine, many of the miners were under the legal age. Although Glencore says it stopped operating in the mine since 2008, because of the collapse in the price of copper, it still owns the concession. Glencore chief executive Ivan Glasenberg said the mine had been taken over by local workers without its permission. He said the child miners were part of a group of freelance miners
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