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** Another Necron base was found in an {{spoiler|asteroid mine}}. Cain suspected, but as there were ''also'' tyranids attacking the asteroid, ''they'' got the blame for the deaths of the miners. It seems likely the 'nids actually arrived ''after'' just about all the humans were dead.

** The same thing happened in the [[Space Marine]] novel "The Fall of Damos". The Adeptus Mechnicus dug up necron ruins, collected artifacts and did not tell anyone else about it. Some time later the awakened necrons slaughtered most of the human population and were only halted by the Ultramarines.

* In the [[Simon R. Green]] novel ''Blue Moon Rising'' the inhabitants of a mining town Dug Too Deep just as the [[Big Bad]] awakened. By the time the heros get there it is far, far too late for anything except revenge.

* ''Streams of Silver'' by R. A. Salvatore: manages to combine both [[The Lord of the Rings|Moria]] and ''[[The Hobbit]]'', because the dwarves dug too deep and thereby somehow allowed access to a shadow dragon that drove them from their home.

* The [[wikipedia:Sidoarjo mud flow|Sidoarjo Mud Flow.]] An Indonesian oil and gas company, PT Lapindo Brantas, in its search for natural gas in East Java, created a "Borehole" (a narrow shaft) into the Earth, digging more then 10,000 meters into the ground (a depth no natural gas has ever been found at before). Having ignored sensibility, they decided to ignore the law as well, not using the required protective equipment on the drill. The result? Running a giant drill next to fault lines has consequences, as the poor people of the surrounding villages learned when the drilling erupted a massive mud volcano, making 1.5 million people homeless. The eruption is still going on today, five years after the incident, spewing 88,000 cubic feet of mud every day—and is not expected to stop completely for ''at least'' another 25 years. PT Lapindo Brantas was ordered to pay up to $300,000,000 in damages. The higher ups tried to sell the company for $2 to off shore groups in an attempt to avoid responsibility. They were denied.

* The [[wikipedia:Iron Mountain Mine|Iron Mountain Mine]] in Northern California. When this location was mined out, they discovered that in addition to rich iron deposits, the mine contained acidophilic archaea that lived off of the rich iron deposits, metabolizing them and producing sulfuric acid as waste. This created extremely toxic hot springs with a pH of less than 1, which drained into other water sources, making the mine one of the most toxic waste sites in the United States of America.

** On the other hand, drilling for oil directly over a salt ''dome'' is a Really Good Idea: it's not uncommon for a salt dome formation to trap oil.