The shaft is a mile deep and the primary access to the Lucky Friday Mine.
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They speed into the breathtaking fjords of British Columbia, where the icy waters are more than a mile deep.
Rather than going an inch deep and a mile wide, data is examined a mile deep and a mile wide.
One cubic mile of oil would fill a pool that was a mile long, a mile wide, and a mile deep.
At 277 miles long and more than a mile deep, its intricate formations are matched only by the stunning striation of the rock, and by the knowledge that the entire thing was carved out by the Colorado River on a 5-million-year mission.
In the longer term, the project, named The Northern Gateway, will involve dredging a channel 14.5m deep a mile out to sea, to allow 300m long deep sea container vessels to dock at a new quayside, opening the North East up to new markets in the far east.
Once we are in our kayaks, our guide, Timothy Duffy, leads us into a 10-mile-deep ice field dotted with blue-white bergs that vary in size from refrigerator to SUV to two-story house.
Tod Wood, an analyst with ING Baring in Japan, says Orix is becoming a mile wide and an inch deep.
"My friend and mentor Dave Foreman said years ago that support for conservation is typically a mile wide and an inch deep, " he said.
What the May 6 crash did show was that while high frequency trading may work just fine in normal market conditions, when trouble comes the markets become a mile wide and an inch deep.
"You pass a lot of agonizing hours watching somebody try to do something at the end of a cable a mile long -- down in the deep, dark ocean, " he says.
He had to convince local officials to rezone the land from office to residential and build a giant wall, a half-mile long and 200 feet deep, to keep the Mediterranean from seeping into the underground parking garage.
Eight small boats exploring stretches of the Hudson opening to canoeists in the central Adirondacks all made it through seven moderate rapids interspersed with long flat-water stretches on a 7.3-mile trip through deep forests of evergreens and hardwoods.
Then it came again: a deep, threatening rumble from a mile away.
The wells of most geothermal plants are about 2km (a mile-and-a-bit) deep.
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The company said that on Friday it had collected 6, 077 barrels of oil after placing a containment cap over the leaking, mile-deep well.
Only one of the 40 wells drilled by others into the Wilcox Sands in mile deep water has ever had a flow test.
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Participants on a 10-to-12 mile Tough Mudder course wade through waist-deep mud, crawl under barbed wire, submerge themselves in ice water and jump through fire.
Oil from the mile-deep well may be collecting in underwater clouds, potentially endangering a cornucopia of life from the sea floor to the surface, preliminary sampling by university researchers suggests.
Boston Properties continues to concentrate on a few select markets, giving what Linde calls "1-inch wide, 1-mile deep" attention to wherever it operates.
The effort, called a "top kill, " involved plugging the ruptured deep-sea well by pumping heavy drilling fluid into it from the surface, nearly a mile above.
On Tuesday, after the storm had passed, I gave my family the slip and walked a mile south through Red Hook, first past houses and businesses that were still bilge-ing out waist-deep water on Van Brunt Street, than over to Lorraine Street, where I heard the water had been high that morning, and the Red Hook Houses, a housing project.
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