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Thursday, February 13, 2014
Dive into the Deep Depths of the Kopanang Mine
The Kopapang mine, located in South Africa, is the one of the deepest mines in the world. it is found extremely deep underground and is many, many, miles wide. Considering this, it is amazing how so many people work in this mine everyday, especially because of how scary it must be to work there. Speaking of the workers, they all get around in carts on railroad tracks. There are so many tracks that it has more than all of the countries combined! The Kopapang mine also produces a lot of gold. I mean a lot. They produce about 307,000 oz in 2011! That's a lot of gold! Now that you know the ins and outs of the Kopapang mine, would you even consider working there?
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No way would I work there. If its so deep then they they should have oxygen to breath down there. The people that work down there probably are probably just trying to provide for their families by earning money to get food. But still it would be scary to work there and it's to badd they can't keep some of the gold to themselves. It's definitely a hundred percent dangerous.
ReplyDeleteI would never even consider working down there! I read that it has a depth of 2,600 meters! You wouldn't escape if the roof caved in, or what if you drilled into a lava deposit? You would die! I know gold is valuable and all, but so is your life. I wouldn't work there even if they paid me $1,000,000 a day! How would you feel if one day you were minding your own business at work and an avalanche of dirt falls from the roof a couple miles up? It wouldn't hit you for a little while, but you'd be trapped forever!
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