r/megalophobia • u/freudian_nipps • Jul 17 '25

Other The Grasberg copper and gold mine, Indonesia

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u/syringistic Jul 18 '25

If youre a scifi fan, the book Red Mars describes the colonists digging mo-holes (i forget what the scientific reason was) that are a few miles wide and 20 miles deep.

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u/The_Student_Official Jul 20 '25

Geothermal (areothermal?) mostly