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That is what i found:

https://minewiki.engineering.queensu.ca/mediawiki/index.php/...

Honestly i would have thought it to be more expensive.

At higher depths the ground pressure is enormous and you need a lot of bracing.

Then there is water management, air, transportation of the dug out material...

When there is rock you usually need blasting or gargantuan drills which i am not sure even exists in the required diameter.



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