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Just a bit of pedantry - the story linked (correctly) identifies the Kola superdeep borehole near Pechenga, Russia as the deepest hole humanity has ever drilled
by lb1lf 8y ago
Just a bit of pedantry - the story linked (correctly) identifies the Kola superdeep borehole near Pechenga, Russia as the deepest hole humanity has ever drilled, at some 12,200m/40,000ft.
However, 'dug' in my book is not the same as drilling; the deepest hole ever dug (unless you want to go all fundamentalist and claim 'dug' implies shovels and pickaxes and nothing else!) is the Bingham Canyon open-pit mine in Utah, at some 1,200m/4,000ft. (They've been at it for more than 100 years!)
The deepest mine? Mponeng and TauTona, two South African gold mines, at approx. 4,000m/13,000ft. (And counting!)
- anemic 8y agoThanks for this, reading the article made me curious about this too. The folks at Cards Against Humanity () didn't get too close to the record. They also ran out of funding like most of the projects mentioned in the article... https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/nov/28/cards-against-humanity-hole https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/nov/28/cards-aga...
- growlist 8y agoDeepest hand dug well is in Brighton - 1285ft: https://www.woodingdeaninbusiness.co.uk/blog/where-is-the-woodingdean-well/ https://www.woodingdeaninbusiness.co.uk/blog/where-is-the-wo...