Mirny Diamond Mine Of Siberia

<div style="text-align: justify;">Mirny Mine is an open pit diamond mine located in Mirny, Eastern Siberia, Russia. The mine is 525 meters (1,722 ft) deep (4th in the world) and has a diameter of 1,200 m (3,900 ft), and is the second largest excavated hole in the world, after Bingham Canyon Mine. The airspace above the mine is closed for helicopters because of a few incidents in which they were sucked in by the downward air flow. Crazy dude.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIwNSWC5Juz8KHEG6WyGZkrBlJa1qQ-svUNbgvAicbZgFsvSHkiLR-CGYj2-GWBazibCjyDYbP1IP8PdsNhvcXIYfR284Z-3n0NBRPr0Dd4xYOmMFvtyljwdnVYflL1Xx2CMqW-92awef2/s1600/tumblr_lkmxfg8HZW1qbvvito1_1280.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIwNSWC5Juz8KHEG6WyGZkrBlJa1qQ-svUNbgvAicbZgFsvSHkiLR-CGYj2-GWBazibCjyDYbP1IP8PdsNhvcXIYfR284Z-3n0NBRPr0Dd4xYOmMFvtyljwdnVYflL1Xx2CMqW-92awef2/s640/tumblr_lkmxfg8HZW1qbvvito1_1280.jpeg" width="640"></a></div><br>In the 1960s the mine was producing 10,000,000 carats (2,000 kg) of diamond per year. The Mirny mine was the first and the largest diamond mine in the Soviet Union. Its surface operation lasted 44 years, finally closing in June 2001.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi40IPfSu_voyZKmoLmsmh1VmYtLnft-F_3zrg-iV6lvS6YYFsOZZm43x3fiUTNg76Y0DLAc08xiZOZNmgJTlL9bRbrJWyx-r9z50uczBAiyF5cu_OgRgfNOkYe-asFjntugZP6_3ogbsJJ/s1600/0665824.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="486" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi40IPfSu_voyZKmoLmsmh1VmYtLnft-F_3zrg-iV6lvS6YYFsOZZm43x3fiUTNg76Y0DLAc08xiZOZNmgJTlL9bRbrJWyx-r9z50uczBAiyF5cu_OgRgfNOkYe-asFjntugZP6_3ogbsJJ/s640/0665824.jpg" width="640"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br></div></div><a href="http://aibob.blogspot.com/2011/07/mirny-diamond-mine-of-siberia_23.html#more">Click to read more »</a>

Mirny Diamond Mine Of Siberia

Mirny Mine is an open pit diamond mine located in Mirny, Eastern Siberia, Russia. The mine is 525 meters (1,722 ft) deep (4th in the world) ...

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Bingham Canyon Mine - The Hole Of Oquirrh Mountains

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3OuNKl7fvbNvv8SV2FZcb7kLKSKVQ8n_FAdhDkck31EzLhahdcDfNqNiWvFsRcVgVCc_953ZY7-pDk9dcbZdWKAYDkWXPcfILxHgbGrMSV9ZJFJMb0Y0pDRdlQzV5TX4upcsZ46O9Tvti/s1600/iss015e29867.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="422" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3OuNKl7fvbNvv8SV2FZcb7kLKSKVQ8n_FAdhDkck31EzLhahdcDfNqNiWvFsRcVgVCc_953ZY7-pDk9dcbZdWKAYDkWXPcfILxHgbGrMSV9ZJFJMb0Y0pDRdlQzV5TX4upcsZ46O9Tvti/s640/iss015e29867.jpg" width="640"></a></div><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Bingham Canyon Mine, also known as the Kennecott Copper Mine, is an open-pit mining operation extracting a large porphyry copper deposit southwest of Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, in the Oquirrh Mountains. It is the deepest open-pit mine in the world. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRKlyJXkZg79nNMskUAM7s8SYVofa4tRAmNvuyCA0nsFLXU2UW_HiZIO_sj4Bxfz9BgMlQXY_HRBStaNaLc_50dNhxeNrsjFAhU8CqCeoD5-4Rr1DUchNADwZ2Ic0LfAK4A-Rm_Y_KRbWa/s1600/Bingham+Canyon+Mine.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRKlyJXkZg79nNMskUAM7s8SYVofa4tRAmNvuyCA0nsFLXU2UW_HiZIO_sj4Bxfz9BgMlQXY_HRBStaNaLc_50dNhxeNrsjFAhU8CqCeoD5-4Rr1DUchNADwZ2Ic0LfAK4A-Rm_Y_KRbWa/s640/Bingham+Canyon+Mine.png" width="640"></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The mine is owned by Rio Tinto Group, an international mining and exploration company headquartered in the United Kingdom. The copper operations at Bingham Canyon Mine are managed through Kennecott Utah Copper Corporation which operates the mine, a concentrator plant, a smelter, and a refinery. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><a href="http://aibob.blogspot.com/2011/09/bingham-canyon-mine-hole-of-oquirrh.html#more">Click to read more »</a>

Bingham Canyon Mine - The Hole Of Oquirrh Mountains

The Bingham Canyon Mine, also known as the Kennecott Copper Mine, is an open-pit mining operation extracting a large porphyry copper deposit...

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