Between 2010 and 2014, a previous junior mining company developed a
small underground operation that was put on care and maintenance due to engineering and financial issues, as well as a downward trending gold price.
Back in the 1970s, Shugart's Deceased Pet Care in Atlanta --- the brainchild of Doyle Shugart, a human funeral director --- was almost
an underground operation.
According to the Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources, the suspension in that instance was to allow for thorough investigations into the company's
underground operations, and the alleged death of about seven miners in the area.
An underground operation headed by an evil entrepreneur named Brinkman (Ian McShane) is pursuing the scientific genius of Dr. Connor (Martin Donovan).
All facts including tracing bank and credit card transactions is what allows them to ascertain
an underground operation, the penalty is a massive fine and / or jail.