DEEPEST GOLD MINE.
The deepest gold mine in the world is at Bendigo, in Australia. The mine in question is called the New Chum Railway Mine, and it 3 main shaft i 3 sunk to the depth of 3900 feet, or only sixty feet short of three-quarters of a mile. The chl?f problem in working this extremely deep mine is how to keep the tunnels and general workings cool enough for the miners to work in. , The temperature —usually about 108 degrees —is terribly enervating, and to enable the men to work at all a spray of cold water is let down from above and kept playing continually on the bodies—naked * from the waist upward—_f the miners.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 207, 30 August 1905, Page 2
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117DEEPEST GOLD MINE. Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 207, 30 August 1905, Page 2
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