doesn't seem real efficient to me, but if there was a better way they would be doing i guess.
super dangerous job for the guys in the pit
I know nothing about underground mining, but they seriously let a bloke get down in the pit and dance with the devil with those buckets and arm/digger thingies flailing about? Was that filmed in 2006 or 1946?
I've never been on a shaft sink, but I've been on top of an alimak where a rock slid down my steel, bounced off the drill exhaust and hit me in the face. That wasn't fun. 
Explosives are always fun though. 
Maybe back in the days when blood and gore were R-rated. I didn't get the wound stitched either; it was night shift and I didn't want to interrupt the shaft hauling ore.
Ruined my modelling potential.
Here's some more mining words for you: rod, hard, hot, wet, tools, vibration, 'getting an end away'.
I remember hearing about guys building tunnels under New York, under the harbour. The tunnels are pressurised to help keep them stable.
Once-in-a-while they'll get a leak. A small hole will open at the top of the tunnel, and then everything starts getting sucked out the hole. Tools, hard hats ...people.
Once three guys got sucked out. One lived. He literally got sucked up through the bottom of the harbour, like the dirt, which he described as the most intense pressure ever, then up through the water and then shot out about 20m into the air.
... I'll see if I can find something on it.
www.sandhogs147.org/
But the story I'm thinking of I can only find here:
www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab
(somewhere around the 3/4 mark)
I have to sit in a cubicle all day. Does that count? I've read the internet twice already today.
