By JENNIFER DOBNER
The Associated Press

HUNTINGTON, Utah - Relatives of six miners trapped deep inside a Utah coal mine are holding out hope the sixth - and last - borehole will provide the miracle they’ve craved for more than two weeks.

Other holes drilled into the Crandall Canyon mine have failed to reveal signs of life. The sixth hole is to be drilled Thursday into an area where the miners were last believed to have been working.

“This is the last hole,” mine co-owner Bob Murray said at a news conference Wednesday night. Drilling it, he said, will “bring closure to me that I could never get them out alive.”

But Jackie Taylor, whose daughter Lacee dates one of the six men missing since an Aug. 6 cave-in, said relatives and friends are insisting that more be done.

She issued a plea Thursday for the rescue effort to continue, even though three men died trying to tunnel toward the miners.

“We are so appreciative to all of the rescue members and their families. Don’t get us wrong, we are so appreciative,” Taylor told NBC’s “Today.” “Our love and our prayers go out to all of their family members. But our family members are still under there. They’re underground. We need that closure in our lives also.”

Punching through the fifth borehole Wednesday, rescuers found only a 6-inch void in the mine 1,500 feet down, federal officials said.