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Dec 28, 2009

The world’s biggest man-made hole

Tagged: amazing, biggest hole, diamond mine, open pit

The Udachnaya pipe is the largest diamond deposit in Russia and one of the largest in the world. The mine is one of the largest open pits in the world.

"Peace" diamond mine located in Russia’s Siberian permafrost，near the city of Ya-khutia, where is one of the coldest areas of the world, winter temperatures as low as -50 degrees Celsius. However, this outlying area, the former Soviet Union and Russia dug up the world’s largest "artificial hole" – "Peace" diamond mine. This huge open pit diameter of about 1600 meters, a depth of 533 meters, in the images from satellitesit, it looks like a big wound on Earth .

As far as know, the diamond mine is so huge that the helicopter has also been prohibited from flying above it. Because the air turbulence caused by it which is enough to inhale the helicopter. Once the helicopter was "captured" by this giant hole, it would be a tragedy.

In fact, dig for diamonds in this largest hole is obviously not an easy task, in the winter, the lubricant will be ice crystals, iron and steel will also be Frost Crack.

Top secret of Soviet Union
"Peace" Diamond Mine is the world’s largest man-made open pit. "Peace" Diamond Mine was one of the Kremlin’s top-secret, its output of diamond is a strong economic capital of former Soviet Union, up till now, the Russian government continue mining, eager to yield more diamond treasure.

Since the age of 50 from the last century, Russia’s miners have dug out 165 million cubic meters of rock from the mine.

The Udachnaya pipe is the largest diamond deposit in Russia and one of the largest in the world. The mine is one of the largest open pits in the world.