File:Lake Peigneur Waterfall.png

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Description	This image depicts the huge waterfall that formed when an oil drilling rig in Lake Peigneur punctured the ceiling of an underlying salt mine.
Source	The Mining Operations Division, Department of Minerals and Energy, Western Australia, Australia Source site: http://www.docep.wa.gov.au/resourcessafety/Sections/Mining_Safety/Guidance_material_and_publications/MineSafe_Magazine.html Source URL: http://www.docep.wa.gov.au/resourcessafety/Sections/Mining_Safety/pdf_/MS%20GMP/MineSafe%20Magazine/MS_GMP_MineSafe_mar00.pdf New URL: http://www.dmp.wa.gov.au/documents/Magazine/008_MineSafe.pdf
Date	November, 1980
Author	Unknown (Editor Patrick Burke)
Permission (Reusing this file)	Unlicensed, see the fair use rationale below.

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Fair use for Lake Peigneur[edit]

The image linked here is claimed to be used under fair use as:

it depicts a non-reproducible historic event (the Lake Peigneur disaster),
it is of lower resolution than the original (copies made from it will be of very inferior quality),
there is no alternative, public domain or free-copyrighted replacement available.

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	Date/Time	Thumbnail	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	10:52, 29 July 2006		290 × 296 (89 KB)	Mstroeck (talk \| contribs)	This image depicts the huge waterfall that formed when an oil drilling rig in Lake Peigneur punctured the ceiling of an underlying salt mine. Source: Department of Minerals and Energy, W.A., Australis ( [http://www.docep.wa.gov.au/resourcessafety/Se

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Lake Peigneur