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The popularity of Minecraft mods has been credited for helping Minecraft become one of the best-selling video games of all time. The first Minecraft mods worked by decompiling and modifying the Java source code of the game. The original version of the game, now called Minecraft: Java Edition, is still modded this way, but with more advanced tools.
This list of deepest mines includes operational and non-operational mines that are at least 2,224 m (7,297 ft), which is the depth of Krubera Cave, the deepest known natural cave in the world. The depth measurements in this list represent the difference in elevation from the entrance of the mine to the deepest excavated point.
Their LaRonde mine expansion sees open stopes down to a depth of over 3,000 m (9,800 ft), the deepest long hole open stopes in the world. The deepest mine in Europe is the 16th shaft of the uranium mines in Příbram , Czech Republic at 1,838 m (6,030 ft), [ 6 ] second is Bergwerk Saar in Saarland , Germany at 1,750 meters.
A depth charge is an anti-submarine warfare (ASW) weapon designed to destroy submarines by detonating in the water near the target and subjecting it to a destructive hydraulic shock. Most depth charges use high explosives with a fuze set to detonate the charge, typically at a
The Grasberg mine has one of the largest reserves of gold and copper in the world. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is located in Mimika Regency , Central Papua , Indonesia near Puncak Jaya . It is operated by PT Freeport Indonesia (PTFI, see below ), a joint venture among the government of Indonesia , government of Central Papua , and American company Freeport ...
Open-pit mining, also known as open-cast or open-cut mining and in larger contexts mega-mining, [1] is a surface mining technique that extracts rock or minerals from the earth. Open-pit mines are used when deposits of commercially useful ore or rocks are found near the surface where the overburden is relatively thin. In contrast, deeper mineral ...
As part of the Witwatersrand, the largest gold mineralization on earth, Mponeng is the result of the discovery of the basin by Europeans. Beginning in the 1850-70s a series of mineral discoveries were made in the area, including those of Pieter Jacobus Marais panning gold from a river and Henry Lewis finding quartz and gold vein on a farm, that led to the Witwatersrand Gold Rush in 1886. [9]
In 2018 the mine produced 26.9 million tonnes of iron ore. [2] The Kiruna mine has an ore body which is 4 km (2.5 mi) long, 80 metres (260 ft) to 120 metres (390 ft) thick and reaching a depth of up to 2 km (1.2 mi). Since mining began at the site in 1898, the mine has produced over 950 million tonnes of ore. [1]