sentences:  The planned long-term benefits were to be huge, and were to be the driver for economic regeneration in Central Fife.In 1961, four years after opening, the huge investment was written off and the mine run down because of unstemmable flooding, and closed in May 1962.Ironically, miners who had worked in older deep pits in the area had forewarned against the development of the Rothes Pit for this very reason.