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SimonRL Joined: 27/11/2005 Location: North Wales View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	More than 3,000 stuck in SA mine Posted: 03/10/2007 22:50:57 Reply \| Quote In case anybody has not seen this: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7027122.stm [link] -- 'It may have been an adit once, but it is not an adit... now' IP: 84.65.201.201 Edited: 03/10/2007 22:51:16 by SimonRL
ChrisP Joined: 25/05/2007 Location: By the computer, so it would seem View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	More than 3,000 stuck in SA mine Posted: 03/10/2007 23:31:32 Reply \| Quote Bl'dy ell. Modern mining appears safe enough but when disaster strikes it seems usually serious. Here's to their safe rescue. -- Mae'r Saeson sydd yn defnyddio'r gymraeg yn anghywir, er mwyn rhoi argraff ir pobol lleol, yn ynfyd IP: 88.110.179.213
Barney Joined: 01/12/2005 Location: Warwickshire View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	More than 3,000 stuck in SA mine Posted: 04/10/2007 00:15:26 Reply \| Quote Sounds like this one will have a happy ending though! -- Myfi na dweud Cymraeg IP: 86.129.245.169
ferret Joined: 28/04/2007 Location: cornwall View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	More than 3,000 stuck in SA mine Posted: 04/10/2007 10:33:36 Reply \| Quote seconded! poor buggers, even at the height of metal mining or slate for that matter never this many where involved in a disaster! IP: 141.163.84.1
Barney Joined: 01/12/2005 Location: Warwickshire View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	More than 3,000 stuck in SA mine Posted: 04/10/2007 10:46:19 Reply \| Quote 750 out already, thats good! Must be one hell of a mine to fit 3,000 workers down there! -- Myfi na dweud CymraegConsidering an English conversion! IP: 86.129.245.169
jagman Joined: 11/03/2007 View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	More than 3,000 stuck in SA mine Posted: 04/10/2007 12:18:56 Reply \| Quote My sister in laws father worked down there as an electrician a good while back. The gold mines there are close to a mile and a half deep and huge. Mostly mined by low paid black miners (or were then, I doubt anything has changed) and shift massive volumes of rock to get the gold. Never been there but would love to visit a mine that deep!! IP: 90.197.232.97
Colonel Mustard Joined: 07/03/2007 Location: The Cumbrian Underground View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	More than 3,000 stuck in SA mine Posted: 04/10/2007 13:29:59 Reply \| Quote jagman wrote: Never been there but would love to visit a mine that deep!! Yeah me too. I wonder if there are any back doors we could sneak into ? -- ' ...they passed therein with fear and trembling for the rocks were high above their heads and great stones lay around... ' IP: 195.8.188.42
jagman Joined: 11/03/2007 View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	More than 3,000 stuck in SA mine Posted: 04/10/2007 13:57:19 Reply \| Quote Nimrod wrote: jagman wrote: Never been there but would love to visit a mine that deep!! Yeah me too. I wonder if there are any back doors we could sneak into ? Usually You got a mile and a half of rope to SRT the other shaft? Even if its laddered it may take us a while...... IP: 90.197.232.97
LAP Joined: 04/02/2007 Location: Somewhere between Carnforth/Carn-Ffyrdd, and Milnthorpe. View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	More than 3,000 stuck in SA mine Posted: 04/10/2007 17:02:05 Reply \| Quote jagman wrote: Nimrod wrote: jagman wrote: Never been there but would love to visit a mine that deep!! Yeah me too. I wonder if there are any back doors we could sneak into ? Usually You got a mile and a half of rope to SRT the other shaft? Even if its laddered it may take us a while...... erm yes... you might get noticed... My dad has visited copper mines in africa (70s).. very deep ones... some of the gold mines go well over 6,00 ft I think. -- ? ? ? ? ? ? IP: 84.68.77.82
ChrisP Joined: 25/05/2007 Location: By the computer, so it would seem View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	More than 3,000 stuck in SA mine Posted: 04/10/2007 18:24:50 Reply \| Quote The deepest gold and diamond mines can be up to 3500m deep- my geology teacher knows people who have visited these places which get quite warm at the bottom because of the geothermal gradient. Not nice to be trapped in. -- Mae'r Saeson sydd yn defnyddio'r gymraeg yn anghywir, er mwyn rhoi argraff ir pobol lleol, yn ynfyd IP: 88.111.6.1

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