From The Writer’s Alamanac, a trivia on mining:

Today is believed to be the birthday of William Shakespeare, (books by this author) born in Stratford-on-Avon, England (1564).   Shakespeare has always been popular in America, and many colonists kept copies of his complete works along with their Bibles. Pioneers performed his work out West. Many of the mines and canyons across the West are named after Shakespeare or one of his characters. Three mines in Colorado are called Ophelia, Cordelia, and Desdemona. (As depicted in order below.)

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In May 2006 four people died at the Sullivan Mine, British Columbia.  They suffocated in a water-sampling shed.  There was not enough oxygen in the shed to keep them alive, and they died, one after the other.  It was a terrible accident–much of it due to barometric pressure variations. 

In the Sixth Australian Workshop on Acid and Metalliferous Drainage, held in mid-April 2008, M. Phillips, D. Hockley, and B. Dawson set out guidelines in their paper Sullivan Mine Fatalities Incident: Preliminary Technical Investigations and Findings to prevent a repeat of this type of accident. 

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