BORE WAR
Daily Star|January 31, 2024
China and Japan in race to drill hole to centre of the Earth
JERRY LAWTON
BORE WAR

CHINA and Japan are locked in a bizarre race to the centre of the Earth.

They plan to drill more than 30,000ft into the planet's core in the hope of finding fresh supplies of natural gas and oil - as well as rare minerals.

Russia holds the record for the deepest ever man-made hole.

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