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When Kimihia was first mined, between 1890 and 1900, the coal was won by digging underground beneath the
bed of the Lake. During the Second World War when it was decided to opencast, the Kimihia Lake was drained
exposing the old underground mining caverns approximately 30 meters below what had once been the lake
surface.
