Hello everyone and welcome back to Scary Interesting.

In this video we're going to go over two more of the worst disasters in history.

I have to warn you, although these two accidents are completely different, but they're

both absolutely horrifying nightmare scenarios, probably some of the worst that have

been covered on this channel.

So although the events in this video are fleeting and nondescriptive, they are still highly disturbing, so viewer discretion is strongly advised.

Located in Orkney, South Africa, the Val Reef's mine is a complex set of underground shafts and tunnels extensive in both length and depth.

The deepest shaft drops almost a mile and a half or 2.3 kilometers into the earth and it's busy almost around the clock.

This is because it's one of the richest gold mines in all of Africa and in 1994 alone, miners there produce more than 155,000 pounds of gold worth $845 million

at the time. Such a large and prosperous mine obviously needed to employ a lot of miners, but this

was a complicated issue in the mid-1990s. South Africa had only been out from under apartheid for

four years in 1995, and change had been close to non-existent. On paper under apartheid for four years in 1995 and change had

been close to non-existent.

On paper, apartheid was sold to South Africans as a prosperous social system that would benefit

all, but in practice it served to keep some of the segments of the population destitution,

while the best of everything was reserved for the ruling class.

One of the many benefits of apartheid that this ruling

class enjoyed was that the system kept labor cheap. Four mine owners raking in millions of dollars

a year in gold, this both maximized their profits and reduced the responsibility to

provide safe working conditions since the lower classes weren't considered as valuable. And the

company that owned the Valerife's mine was no different. Located southwest of the capital of owned the Val-Reefe's Mine was no different.

Located southwest of the capital of Johannesburg, the Val-Reefe's Mine was central to the economy of Orkney and played a massive role in the overall economic prosperity of the entire country.

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