Chris Seymour, former Mining Engineer (1983-2000) • Updated October 8
Why can't we dig deeper than 12.2 km into the Earth? Main-qimg-1ea54c8dfd42bdda3ea1e2726a721223-pjlq
I have traveled to about 3.5 kilometers beneath the surface at the Western Deeps mine in South Africa. The problems of going deeper were obvious.

We had to descend three sep...

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