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The Wikipedia entry on the town of Springhill, Nova Scotia, reports that Springhill's coal mines were "...among the deepest in the world at over 14,000 feet below the surface." This is not correct. The No. 2 mine had reached a depth of approximately 4,700 feet below the surface before it was closed following the disasterous and lethal bump of October, 1958. The shaft did not go straight down, but was angled, so that while the end of the shaft was around 14,000 feet from the entrance, it was less than a mile deep. It was, however, probably the deepest coal mine in North America at the time. The Wikipedia entry for the Springhill mining disasters -- there were three -- correctly makes the distinction between the mine's depth and the length of its shaft(s).

I considered correcting the entry, but since there is a project for Canadian history, I think it better that a member of the project make the correction and reconcile the numbers in the entry for the town of Springhill with the entry for the Springhill mining disasters.

To my knowledge, the deepest mines in the world are near Johannasburg, South Africa. They reach a depth of almost 12,000 feet below the surface.