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Basic navbox for underground physics laboratories. Country, abbreviated name, access (tunnel or shaft), and equivalent shielding. (Depth is not well defined for ones under non-flat mountains.) Under construction in italics.

In terms of size and general significance of laboratories, there are clearly five "large" labs of particular significance: CJPL, Kamioka, LNGS, SNOLAB, and SURF. Is it worth grouping or highlighting those?

These are the large, multi-experiment laboratories, which in practice means particle physics. Omitted are:

• Laboratories used only for waste disposal research (mostly because there are lots, but only one has an article on Wikipedia):
  • Meuse/Haute Marne Underground Research Laboratory (France)
  • Mizunami Underground Research Laboratory (Japan).
  • Horonobe Underground Research Center (Japan).
  • Whiteshell underground research laboratory (Canada)
  • Other labs listed in http://www.oecd-nea.org/rwm/reports/2013/78122-rwm-url-brochure.pdf
• Shallow one-experiment "laboratories" for man-made neutrino oscillation studies:
  • Aberdeen Tunnel Underground Laboratory (Hong Kong)
  • Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment
  • Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory
  • Reactor Experiment for Neutrino Oscillation
  • NOνA far detector
  • etc.
• Planned or closed laboratories which don't have wikipedia articles already:
  • Sieroszowice Underground Laboratory (SUNLAB): [ ⚑ ] 51°33′21″N 16°2′30″E (Poland). A candidate to host LAGUNA but currently just planned, AFAICT.
  • Solotvina Underground Laboratory (Ukraine) Seems to be defunct. (Located in Solotvyno.)
• Closed laboratories:
  • Particle experiments at Kolar Gold Fields. This used to be listed struck out, but after discussion about the ugliness, got removed.
• Subsurface physics experiments that don't have accessible lab space.
  • IceCube
  • ANTARES (telescope)

On the other hand, if a laboratory is significant enough, it's included as a redlink. Currently, that's Oto Cosmo Observatory, Laboratoire Souterrain à Bas Bruit and the Astroparticle Research Facility under construction in Korea.

Two labs with onlybrief mention in other articles:

• Kimballton Underground Research Facility has no article, but is linked to Kimballton, Virginia, which mentions the laboratory in passing and has a link to its web page.
• Agua Negra Deep Experiment Site is described briefly on the Agua Negra Pass page.

Note that nobody WP:OWNs this template; these omission decisions are subject to change by other editors. If you disagree strongly enough, WP:Be Bold. (Just please update the documentation to explain the new rules!)

Three useful surveys of current and planned deep underground laboratories:

• Bettini, Alessandro (September 2014). "New underground laboratories: Europe, Asia and the Americas". Physics of the Dark Universe 4: 36–40. doi:10.1016/j.dark.2014.05.006. Bibcode: 2014PDU.....4...36B. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/262923195_New_underground_laboratories_Europe_Asia_and_the_Americas. 
• Ragazzi, S. (11 September 2015). "Underground Laboratories". XIV International Conference on Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics (TAUP2015). Torino. http://www.taup-conference.to.infn.it/2015/day5/plenary/ragazzi.pdf. Retrieved 2015-11-30. 
• Aldo, Ianni (27 July 2017). "Status of Underground Labs". XV International Conference on Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics (TAUP2017). Sudbury, Canada. https://indico.cern.ch/event/606690/contributions/2661223/. Retrieved 2017-10-14. 

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