Subterranean
Further information: Mining#Records| Deepest mine | 4,000 m (13,123 ft) Mponeng Gold mine, South Africa |
| Deepest mine under sea level | 2,733 m (8,967 ft) under sea level Kidd Mine, Ontario, Canada |
| Deepest open-pit mine | 1,200 m (3,937 ft) Bingham Canyon Mine, Utah, USA |
| Deepest open-pit mine under sea level | 293 m (961 ft) under sea level Tagebau Hambach, Germany |
| Deepest cave | 2,193 m (7,195 ft) Voronya Cave, Arabika Massif, Georgia |
| Deepest pitch (single vertical drop) | 603 m (1,978 ft) Vrtoglavica Cave, Slovenia |
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Famous quotes containing the word subterranean:
“The subterranean miner that works in us all, how can one tell whither leads his shaft by the ever shifting, muffled sound of his pick?”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“So this is the subterranean life.
If it can’t be conjugated onto us, what good is it?
What need for purists when the demotic is built to last,
To outlast us, and no dialect hears us?”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)