Which was halted by a natural disaster, Camlaren Mine or Barton Mine?
Barton Mine Barton Mine, also known as Net Lake Mine, is an abandoned surface and underground mine in Northeastern Ontario, Canada. It is located about 0.50 km north of the Temagami Arena in Temagami North and just east of the Ontario Northland Railway in northwestern Strathy Township. Dating back to the early 1900s, it is one of the oldest mines in Temagami. Barton was the site of a fire in the early 1900s, after which it never had active mining again.
Coalbrook mining disaster The worst mining disaster in South Africa occurred in the Coalbrook coal mine of Clydesdale Colliery on 21 January 1960 at around 19:00 when cave in occurred about 180 metres underground. About 1 000 miners were in the mine at the time and 435 died after being trapped the rest escaped from an incline shaft.