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10-28-2006, 02:01 AM #1Web Hosting Master
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[education] The world's biggest hole
WELCOME to the Mirny mine, which is also the biggest hole in the world.
Sitting just below the Arctic Circle in Siberia, the Mirny diamond mine stretches to more than 1.5km wide and more than 500m deep. Air space above the mine is a no-go zone because the massive hole creates enough air turbulence to suck aircraft into its clutches.
While the Kalgoorlie Super Pit gold mine in Western Australia is longer at 3.5km and about the same width, the Mirny mine is much deeper than the Kalgoorlie mine's 360m. That might change, though. The WA mine is expected to eventually be gouged to more than 500m.
About 165 million cubic metres of rock have been removed from the Mirny mine in the hunt for diamonds since operations began in the 1950s.
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10-28-2006, 02:18 AM #2Aspiring Evangelist
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The pit sits at the edge of the town Mirny, population 40,000, which is constantly exposed to the smell of rotten gas from hydrosulphide, which escapes from the mine.
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10-28-2006, 02:33 AM #3Web Hosting Master
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I was thinking student loans
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11-01-2006, 12:59 AM #4Web Hosting Guru
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WOW!, thats a big hole!
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11-01-2006, 01:28 AM #5Web Hosting Master
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the Mirny diamond mine stretches to more than 1.5km wide and more than 500m deep. Air space above the mine is a no-go zone because the massive hole creates enough air turbulence to suck aircraft into its clutches.
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11-01-2006, 02:38 AM #6Web Hosting Master
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Originally Posted by Techno
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11-01-2006, 03:11 AM #7Web Hosting Master
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11-01-2006, 03:15 AM #8Web Hosting Master
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Originally Posted by Aussie Bob
Us Russians love naming things peace or world (Mir), never really noticed that before
Here is a picture: http://www.fegi.ru/FEGI/MUSEUM/novoste/mirn.htm
Looks like a crater
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11-01-2006, 03:31 AM #9Disabled
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Aussie Bob, why did you call this education?
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11-01-2006, 03:33 AM #10Owner of the net for a day
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nope nope, not biggest at all, check out this one, it literally dwarfs the size of that one, and the money haul from it is far greater.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bingham_Canyon
Also, it is only no fly zone for HELICOPTERS, not for airplanes.
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11-01-2006, 09:22 AM #11Web Hosting Master
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i thought this was the biggest
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11-01-2006, 12:22 PM #12Owner of the net for a day
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Originally Posted by Lauren Stephens
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11-01-2006, 12:24 PM #13New Member
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Amazing! Who would have thought that the hole could pull planes into it!
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11-01-2006, 01:00 PM #14Owner of the net for a day
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It doesn't only helicopters
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11-02-2006, 12:01 AM #15Newbie
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The hole really just pulls in airplanes. But how is that possible, i don't quite understand it. However that is very amazing.
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11-02-2006, 12:45 AM #16Web Hosting Master
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Wow, imagine waking up right on the edge of that thing. That is an instant heart-attack there.
Heh, I've just looked at both Arizona one and that Siberian one on Google Earth. Too bad closeup isn't 100%.Last edited by WHTer; 11-02-2006 at 12:49 AM.
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11-02-2006, 07:04 PM #18Owner of the net for a day
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11-03-2006, 12:18 AM #22Web Hosting Evangelist
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