A rescue operation to get two miners out of an elevator halfway down a mine shaft south of Sydney is under way
The men were left stranded about 160 metres down the shaft on Wednesday evening after the lift broke down at the Tahmoor Coal Mine near Wollongong.
They are in good spirits and rescue crews are communicating with them using radios, a Fire and Rescue NSW spokesman told AAP.
AAP understands rescue crews planned to lower a small elevator into the shaft to inspect the main elevator.
If it is safe the men were to be pulled from the shaft but the spokesman could not speculate on a timeline for the extraction.
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Four FRNSW crews from Picton, Mittagong and Liverpool, including specialist rescue squads and three senior officers, are on scene working to free the men.
