BBC News with Jerry Smit
The Chilean Mining Minister Laurence Golborne has said the mission to rescue 33 miners trapped underground for 70 days at the San Jose mine is going faster than expected. More than two-thirds of them have now been brought to the surface, and Mr Golborne said he expected the operation to go smoothly to the end.
"There haven't been any incidents. No situation or mishap during this process, and we've advanced much faster than we originally foresaw. This leads us to predict that this rescue operation could be finished over the course of the night, which would be in advance of our original predictions."
The 24 rescued men have been applauded by cheering crowds as they step from the escape capsule and then are embraced by relatives.
Among those rescued so far are both the youngest and oldest of those who have been trapped, 19-year-old Jimmy Sanchez and Mario Gomez aged 63. Mario Gomez said the experience had changed him.
"Sometimes you need for something to happen in your life to really reflect and understand that we only have one life, and one thing is that one needs to change. I changed. I'm a different man."
It's intended that the last miner to come up will be Luis Urzua, the shift supervisor.
The reports and pictures from the San Jose mine have gripped audiences around the world. Within Chile itself, the rescue has a much wider significance, as James Read reports.