Copper price rising after Chile quake

SANTIAGO–Major copper mines slowly resumed operations on Sunday after central Chile suffered an earthquake that limited power supplies, which analysts fear could curtail exports by the No. 1 producer.

Ricardo Alvarez, manager at Chile's fourth-largest mine, El Teniente, said the recovery pace of output would depend on the electricity supply, which was partial.

Alvarez said the mine could slow extraction if power lags.

Copper prices surged in early trading Monday on supply worries caused by the 8.8 quake in Chile, jumping 5.6 per cent on the London Metal Exchange.

The tremor killed hundreds, with death tolls climbing, most of them south of the northern mine zone that forced Codelco to shut El Teniente and its Andina copper mine.

Production resumed at Anglo-American Los Bronces copper mine, union leader Eduardo Rocco said.

An Anglo American spokesman said there were no initial reports of major damage at the two mines, which together produce some 280,000 tonnes a year.

Chile's biggest mines produce a third of the world's copper.

Analysts feared supply disruptions from mid-sized deposits nearer Santiago would stoke prices.

Anglo American and Codelco halted output at four mines in total.

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UN says survivors can still be found in Haiti rubble

The United Nations said Tuesday survivors can still be found in the debris of Haiti's devastating earthquake a week after the disaster, with international rescuers having pulled out over 90 people alive.

"Hope persists. There is still hope," said Elisabeth Byrs, spokeswoman for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).

Byrs earlier told AFP that international search and rescue teams had extracted more than 90 survivors from beneath collapsed buildings since the disaster struck on January 12.

They include more than 70 people who had been freed from under collapsed buildings by the teams by Saturday, according to the UN. This means that about 20 people were rescued five or six days after the earthquake struck.

That number does not include those rescued by Haitians.

"Don't forget that the Haitians have also saved an enormous number of Haitians. The Haitians really participated," said Byrs.

US search and rescue teams rescued a record 10 people alive on Sunday, five days after the disaster, defying expectations that survival chances greatly diminish three days after an earthquake.

"According to rescue officials, this is the largest number of rescues in a single day in decades of earthquake search and rescue efforts," USAID said.

The UN spokeswoman explained that the way the buildings had collapsed had increased the chances for survival.

"The climate is mild, there are significant air pockets. The way in which the buildings collapsed has created big spaces," said Byrs.

"The problem is dehydration but for the moment there is still a chance," she added.

International rescue teams are now also expanding their search to affected areas outside of the Haitian capital.

"Our rescue and humanitarian efforts are now concentrated outside of Port-au-Prince," said Byrs.

Besides the capital, the earthquake has wreaked massive damage on nearby cities, including Jacmel to the south of the capital, and Carrefour, Gressier and Leogane, to the west.

At the peak of search and rescue operations, some 52 international teams with over 1,800 rescue workers and 175 dogs were combing through the debris.

Forty-eight teams are still working, said Byrs.

Meanwhile, others, such as members of the Belgian and Luxembourg rescue teams, have returned home, believing they have done all they could to help find survivors.

OCHA said the immediate priorities for relief agencies remained "medical assistance, corpse management, shelter, water and food and sanitation".

While food and tents are arriving in the country, relief agencies said access to fuel -- essential for the transport of relief items -- was becoming a key issue.

The World Food Programme is now planning to move 10,000 gallons (37,855 litres) of diesel fuel a day from neighbouring Dominican Republic to help relieve the situation, said OCHA in its latest situation report.

"Fuel has become a critical issue," said Emilia Casella, the UN food agency's spokeswoman.

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Looting Continues in Haiti as Residents Leave Capital in Search of Food

U.S. troops patrolled the streets of Port-au-Prince on Monday in an attempt to drive away looters who were breaking into shops and buildings to grab whatever they could find. Some people have begun fleeing the capital for the countryside in search of food and better shelter.

At times on Monday, Haitian police fired shots into the air to disperse large roving bands of scavenging looters as they swarmed across the capital.

Nearly a week has passed since Haiti was rocked by last Tuesday's massive 7.0-magnitude earthquake, in which 200,000 people are believed to have been killed. Delays in the delivery of supplies to hundreds of thousands desperate for aid is stoking unrest.

Transportation bottlenecks, bureaucratic confusion, fear of attacks on aid convoys and the collapse of local authority is also making it difficult for help to reach quake victims.

On Monday, hundreds of people lined up outside the American and Canadian embassies in hopes of getting a visa to leave the country.

Others struggled to board buses and leave the capital.

Livena Livel, a 22-year-old mother was heading out of town to her father's home - a four-hour drive from Port-au-Prince.

Livel says that she and her one-year-old daughter, along with six other relatives, have scraped together their last money to pay for the trip.

The $8 one-way ticket, amounts to about three days income for most Haitians.

The U.S. military sent more troops to Haiti on Monday to help with security and the distribution of food and water.

General Ken Keen, who is commanding U.S. military relief operations in Haiti, says logistical obstacles to aid delivery are being overcome.

"Every day, we increase our capabilities to reach out [to Haitians in need]," he said.

U.S. helicopters are at work in Haiti, ferrying food and water to distribution points in and around the devastated capital, where three-million people struggle to survive.

General Keen says U.S. troops are working to assume more responsibility for aid distribution, which will allow U.N. peacekeepers in Haiti to focus on security concerns.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has asked the Security Council to boost the U.N. stabilization mission in Haiti by 3,500 troops and police officers, who would join 9,000 security personnel already there.

Alain Le Roy, the U.N.'s peacekeeping chief - Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations - says that it is important that aid convoys reach those in need quickly.

"Of course there are incidents here and there, sporadic incidents here and there, mostly due to frustration for not getting food and water quickly enough," he said. "And, it's very important that the humanitarian convoys can reach very rapidly the people otherwise we will have security problems."

World leaders have promised massive amounts of assistance to rebuild the capital and international aid pledges for Haiti continue to grow.

The European Union offered more than $500 million in assistance and hundreds of millions more have been pledged by the United States and other nations.

Last week's earthquake damaged Port-au-Prince's airport and seaport. U.S. military officials say a rescue and salvage vessel arrived Monday that will be used to send down divers to assess what may be blocking channels in the port as well as possible places to unload cargo.

Source:voanews.com/

Buried in Haiti rubble, U.S. dad wrote goodbyes

But with iPhone info, he treated his injuries and was rescued after 65 hours

The words on the pages of the plain black notebook are written in a semi-scrawl, punctuated by smears of blood — stark evidence of the desperation in which they were written.

Sitting with his wife, Christina, in Miami’s Jackson Memorial Hospital, Dan Woolley showed the notebook to TODAY’s Meredith Vieira via satellite hookup Tuesday. Trapped for 65 hours under tons of wreckage in the lobby of his hotel by Haiti’s Jan. 12 earthquake and knowing he could die, Woolley had written notes to his two young boys and his wife.



“I always wanted to survive, but I knew that was something that I couldn’t control. So I decided if I had to go, I wanted to leave some last notes for them,” Woolley said. Opening the book and fighting his emotions, he read an entry he addressed to his sons, Josh, 6, and Nathan, 3:



“I was in a big accident. Don’t be upset at God. He always provides for his children, even in hard times. I’m still praying that God will get me out, but He may not. But He will always take care of you.”



‘Boy, I cried’

Woolley had taken refuge in an elevator shaft, where he used an iPhone first-aid app to treat a compound fracture of his leg and a cut on his head. He had already used his digital SLR camera’s focusing light to illuminate his surroundings, and taken pictures of the wreckage to help find a safe place to wait to be rescued — or to die.



Writing the notes to his wife and children wasn’t easy, the deeply religious man said.



“Boy, I cried,” he admitted. “Obviously, no one wants to come to that point. I also didn’t want to just get found after having some time — God gave me some time — to think and to pray and to come to grips with the reality. I wanted to use that time to do everything I could for my family. If that could be surviving, get out, then I would. If it could be just to leave some notes that would help them in life, I would do that.”



Woolley had been working for Compassion International, a mission organization, making a film about the impact of poverty on the people of Haiti. He and a colleague, David Hames, had just returned to the Hotel Montana in Port-au-Prince from a day of filming when the earthquake struck.





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Stained with his blood, Dan Woolley’s notes contained messages of faith in God.

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“I just saw the walls rippling and just explosive sounds all around me,” Woolley told Vieira. “It all happened incredibly fast. David yelled out, ‘It’s an earthquake,’ and we both lunged and everything turned dark.”



Awaiting his fate

Woolley is nearsighted and lost his glasses in the quake. But by using the focusing light on his camera and taking pictures, he was able to figure out where he was and where to go. And thanks to the iPhone first-aid app he’d downloaded, he knew how to fashion a bandage and tourniquet for his leg and to stop the bleeding from his head wound. The app also warned him not to fall asleep if he felt he was going into shock, so he set his cell phone’s alarm clock to go off every 20 minutes.



And then for 65 hours, he waited for whatever fate had in store for him.



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Woolley attributes his survival and rescue by a French rescue team to divine providence. One other member of Woolley’s team was also rescued, but as of Tuesday, Hames had not been found.



The Hotel Montana is also where a student group from Florida’s Lynn University was staying. Four of those students remain missing along with two faculty advisers.



“A lot of people were praying for safety for this trip, and I was working for Compassion International,” Woolley said. “A lot of prayers go out for the work that we do, so I believe that God was present with me and He decided he wanted me to survive, and so He was with me and helped me in those moments.”



Moments of despair

While Woolley concentrated on surviving, his wife, Christina, struggled to cling to hope — not always successfully.





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Trapped under six stories of rubble, Dan Woolley wrote farewell notes to his wife, Christina, and their two young sons.

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“I went through moments of despair,” Christina admitted to Vieira. “I gave up several times, and I thought I’d never see Dan again.”



But, like her husband, Christina said her faith sustained her. She said she had a certain knowledge that “wherever Dan was, God was holding Dan in the palm of his hand. I just didn’t know if that was in Haiti or in heaven. I was begging God that Dan would still be in Haiti.”



On Tuesday, four days after his rescue, Dan and Christina were eagerly looking forward to returning to their Colorado Springs home and reuniting with their sons.



“That’s going to be a very emotional experience,” said Dan, who just a few days ago was writing those blood-smeared notes to the boys. “I’ve spoken to them on the phone several times, but to just hug their heads and touch their curly hair and just love on them and wrestle with them — as long as they don’t hurt my leg — it’s going to be amazing, a dream come true.”

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