South Korea miners survive nine days underground on coffee- PublishedTwo miners who spent nine days trapped in a collapsed South Korean zinc mine living on instant coffee powder have been rescued.The men, aged 62 and 56, are believed to have kept warm by lighting a fire and building a tent out of plastic.The two miners were stranded nearly 200 metres (650 feet) underground after part of the zinc mine they were working in collapsed on 26 October in Bonghwa, in the east of the country.Authorities said the miners survived by drinking water that fell from the ceiling and using instant coffee mix powder as a meal.The were eventually discovered sitting shoulder to shoulder to keep warm, in a spacious chamber where several mine shafts meet."