Mir Diamond Mine - Mirny (Yakutia), Eastern Siberia, Russia
I videoed this on 24 July 2013 during a trip with Alrosa, the company that owns and runs the mine. - Mir Diamond Mine: A kimberlite diamond pipe also called Mirny Mine. The open cut pit is 525 meters (1,722 ft) deep (4th in the world) and has a diameter of 1,200 m (3,900 ft),[1] and is the second largest excavated hole in the world. They now mine underground beneath the pit below 1 km. Some of the facts on the Wikipedia site are outdated and wrong. The mine is still very much active below ground.
Antonov AN-38 over Mirny/Мирный and Mir/Мир Diamond Mine
Alrosa Air Company Antonov AN 38-100 flight over Mirny city and the (very) close open pit diamond mine Mir and the near Rudnik Internatsional'nyy Pit.
The city of Mirny, Sakha Republic, have a population of 37000 people, the Mir mine was discovered in 1955 and the open pit is 525 meters (1,722 ft) deep and 1,200 m (3,900 ft) large.
Currently the excavation activity is continuing with of a network of underground tunnel. The bottom of the mine is flooded, but was previously covered with a layer of rubble to stabilize the surface pit.
Yakutia. Mirny. Kimberlite pipe (Diamond mining)
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Russia. Yakutia. Mirny. Kimberlite pipe. Diamond open pit.The peace pipe.
It's depth is more than 500 meters.
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The local Yakut (Sakha) people called this remote area of the taiga wretched and shunned it for centuries, until forty five years ago, a telegram sent to Moscow stated: The peace pipe has been smoked. The telegram contained a coded message, meaning that a kimberlite pipe was discovered. In a few years, more than five hundred kimberlites were discovered in the area, and a town of Mirny (literally: Peaceful) was founded in 1956 to become the center of the Russian diamond-mining industry.
Mirny Mine - World's Biggest Diamond Mine, Russia
Mirny mine is a former open pit diamond mine located in Mirny, Eastern Siberia, Russia. This mine is 525 meters deep which made it 4th Deepest mine in the world with a diameter of 1,200 meter and is the second largest excavated hole in the world, after Bingham Canyon Mine. Now this Diamond mine is inactive, while it was operational it was taking two hours for trucks to drive from the top to the bottom of the mine.
The Giant Holes: Mirny Diamond Mine, Siberia- Russia #Vendora
The Mir mine Kimberlitovaya Almaznaya Trubka Mir; English: kimberlite diamond pipe Peace),
also called the Mirny mine, is a former open pit diamond mine, now inactive, 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.
Mirny Diamond Mine has a depth of 525 meters and a diameter of 1,200 meters. The excavation pit was started in 1955 to meet the needs of the Soviet Union after the war for the diamond industry.
These abandoned mines that have been located in Mirny, Eastern Siberia, Russia.
This mine has a depth of 525 meters and a diameter of 1,200 meters. It is the second largest man-made hole in the world, after Bingham Canyon Mine.
The airspace above the mine is closed for helicopters because it was considered dangerous. This is due to the difference in air temperature and flow of the unexpected.
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Mirny Diamond Mine Eastern Siberia, Russia
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Mirny diamond mine in Siberia, Russia
Mirny diamond mine in Siberia, Russia
It was a diamond mine where Excavation in it has been initiated in 1957 and operated until it was completely closed in 2004.
This mine has a depth of 525 meters and has a width of 1200 meters, and it is the second largest man made hole in the world after the Bingham in copper mine in Utah.
It was extracted from that mine at the height of its Golden Age about 10 million carats of diamonds annually, with (20 percent) had a gem quality.
Russia - MIR open diamond mine / Алмазный разрез МИР, Саха
The mine is already closed. Filmed on 3.09.14.
Mir Mine flood , eight miners are missing after a flood at Russia's largest diamond mine
Eight miners are missing after a flood at Russia's largest diamond mine.
Eight miners are missing after a flood at Russia's largest diamond mine.
Water leaked into an underground shaft on Friday morning when more than 100 workers were inside.
Most have been rescued from Mir mine in eastern Siberia, according to diamond company Alrosa, which runs it.
However, the company said reports that those still missing had been located were not true and the search continues. Divers have reportedly arrived at the scene.
The town of Mirny in Yakutia has declared a state of emergency.
One man was rescued on Saturday morning.
He is in intensive care at a nearby hospital with a bruised lung, but his life is not in danger, Alrosa said.
Chief Executive Sergey Ivanov said every effort was being made to find the other workers.
The company said 142 people had been brought safely back to the surface so far.
Miners being counted as they resurface, 4 Aug 2016Image copyrightREUTERS
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Alrosa released this image of workers being counted as they resurfaced
The adjacent open-pit mine, one of the world's largest excavated holes, is no longer operational, as mining has moved underground.
However, flooding of the exhausted quarry may have caused the problem, according to local emergency services, as water leaked into one of the active mine's pumping stations.
The crater contained some 300,000 cubic meters of water, the equivalent of 120 Olympic-size swimming pools, the emergencies ministry said.
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10.Umpherston Sinkhole
9..Kimberly Hole
Located in South Africa; the Kimberly Hole is believed to be the largest hole excavated by hand. No dozers; no giant machinery; just sheer manpower.
What was the incentive to dig a hole this big ? To NO ONE’s surprise; it was the discovery of diamonds. Between 1871 and 1914 miners extracted over 5,900 lbs (2,700 kg) of diamonds. Or wait; should we say it in carats? Well it's 13,500,000 Carats.
This hole is pretty big, boasting a nice 1500 ft (463m) wide size. It was dug to a depth of 240 meters (790 feet) but then refilled with debris reducing its depth to about 215 meters (705 feet).
8.Kola Superdeep borehole
7.Mirny Diamond Mine
This is a former open pit diamond mine located in the Siberian region of eastern Russia. It is 1700ft 525 meters deep and has a diameter of 3,900 ft 1200 meters making it the 4th largest excavated hole in the world.
Diamonds were first discovered on June 13, 1955 by soviet geologists during the large Amakinsky expedition in Yakut. They found traces of Kimberlite volcanic rock that is usually associated with diamonds.
The development of the mine happened in extremely harsh climate conditions. During winter months, the temperatures were so low that the ground would freeze making it hard to mine. How bad did it get?
There were reports that steel and car tires would just SHATTER and the oil needed top operate machinery would freeze overnight. Somehow, even in those conditions, there were people willing to excavate diamonds, and the company actually made a profit.
6.Crveno jezero
5.Bingham Canyon mine
This hole is commonly known as Kennecott Copper Mine among the locals and was designated a national historic landmark in 1966. It is an open pit mining located at Salt Lake County in Utah. It is the largest man-made open pit excavation project in the world and it is estimated to have produced more copper than any other mine in history,or about 19 million tons.
If it were a stadium, it could seat 9 million people.
Even though it is a copper mine, it has yielded a wide range of byproducts like gold, silver, molybdenum and large amounts of platinum and palladium. It has been nicknamed the rich hole on earth because it extracts approximately 450,000 tons of rock daily. And earns US$ 1.8 billion dollars per year.
4.Great Blue Hole Belize
3.Diavik Mine
This diamond mine was constructed in 2001 and commenced production in January 2003. It is located in the Northwest Territories in Canada about 300 kilometers from Yellowknife. It is an important part of the regional economy employing 1000 workers and producing 1,400 kilograms of diamonds annually.
The mine has three Kimberlite pipes currently being exploited. Unfortunately, the mine is expected to run out of diamonds in 2024, even after developing a fourth pipe expected to begin production in 2018.
The mine sits above a mantle- a downward protruding thickened portion of the lithosphere- where relatively low heat-flow and reducing conditions have remained suitable for diamond formation and preservation for an extended period of geologic time.
Another mysterious feature of this mine is the high proportion of coated crystals; the gem-quality diamonds that have been overgrown with younger cloudy rims. Recently, a study showed that the rims represent a much more recent growth phase of diamond in the deep mantle keel.
At the site, summers are short and cool while winters are long and extremely cold and this area is considered an arctic semi desert. Daylight ranges from about four hours a day in the winter to as many as 20 hours per day during summer.
In other words; perfect conditions.
2.Hoyo De Cimarron
1.Heavenly Pit, Xiaozhai Tiankeng
The sinkhole was discovered in 1994, it is located in Fengjie County of Chongqing Municipality, Southwest China. It has a diameter of 2000ft(626m) long, and with a depth of 2100ft(662m), this sinkhole is the largest one in the world !
Due to collapses of the walls surrounding this beauty; the rainy season is a sight to behold. Many waterfalls form around it.
Heavenly pit formed some 10,000 years ago when a powerful underground river, which still flows underneath the sinkhole, formed the Triassic limestone Difeng cave that collapsed and in turn formed the sinkhole. The bottom of the sinkhole is the only location where the underground river shows.
1285 species of plants can be studied here; also animals like the clouded leopard have been found in the sinkhole. So make sure you bring your clouded leopard pepper spray.
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Mir mine
The Mir mine (Russian: Кимберлитовая алмазная трубка «Мир» Kimberlitovaya Almaznaya Trubka Mir; English: kimberlite diamond pipe World or Peace), also called the Mirny mine, is a former open pit diamond mine, now inactive, 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.
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Карьер трубки Айхал / Aikhal kimberlite pipe open-pit
Общий вид горной выемки трубки Айхал со смотровой площадки (восточный борт). Коренное месторождение алмазов трубка Айхал была открыта в 1961 г., тогда же и началась разработка карьера. В 1999 г. работа карьера была завершена, месторождение перешло на подземную разработку, а огромный карьер глубиной около 350 м продолжает разрушаться, осыпаться, все более превращаясь в лунный кратер...
Russian Asteroid Crater Has Over $1 Quadrillion of Diamonds
Russia's Diamond Field Can Supply World for 3,000 Years - as part of the news series by GeoBeats.
The Russian government has declassified their discovery of an enormous diamond deposit that reportedly contains trillions of carats of the precious gem, large enough to satisfy markets' demand for 3000 years.
While the government has known about the contents of the site below a 62 mile asteroid crater in eastern Siberia since the 1970s, they have just announced the diamond field to the public.
The secret was kept because the diamond mines at Mirny, in Yakutia, during the reign of the USSR were already producing a large number of diamonds for the world market, along with artificial diamonds that were also being produced by the Soviets.
The impact diamonds, which are created when a meteor traveling at high speed collides with a deposit of graphite, are reportedly twice as hard as other diamonds.
The reserve of diamonds in the crater could potentially have drastic effects on the diamond market, and an expert notes - The value of impact diamonds is added by their unusual abrasive features and large grain size. This expands significantly the scope of their industrial use and makes them more valuable for industrial purposes.
Russia: Mir diamond mine chief engineer says water inflow 'stable'
A total of 142 miners were evacuated following flooding at the pumping station of Alrosa's Mir diamond mine, in the Yakutian town of Mirni, Friday.
SOT, Vladimir Stepanov, Deputy Minister of Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations (EMERCOM) (Russian): According to the current on-site report, 133 people out of 151 have been lifted to the surface. We are proceeding with the second stage of rescue operations.
SOT, Andrei Cheremnov, Chief Engineer of Mir diamond mine (Russian): The EMERCOM unit is presently investigating the horizon -210. According to the latest information, the [floodwaters] rose to chest level at the -210 horizon. At this horizon, there are five people. Contact has not yet been established with them. In regards to the other four people - their location has been established with a degree of precision. There is pumping equipment. We will now work out the programme for the deployment of this pumping equipment in the mine and devise the plan to pump out water.
SOT, Andrei Cheremnov, Chief Engineer of Mir diamond mine (Russian): The inflow of water is stable. Some 1,200 cubic [metres of water] are flowing into the open-pit mine. From the open-pit mine, water goes to the tunnel. The rock inrush most probably was filled. If there is an inflow [of water] in the mine, it is insignificant. This could be seen by the level of water in the open-pit mine. If that level remains the same, some 1,200 cubic [metres] will pass through. If the level rises, less [water] will pass through. We will launch the surface pumping [equipment], namely the dry preservation pump. Inflow of more than 1,200 cubic [metres] is not possible.
SOT, Sergei Shreder, Commander of Yakutia division of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations (EMERCOM) (Russian): The EMERCOM unit is presently carrying out the prospecting operation of the scene of the incident to find victims and assess the situation. Following the prospecting operation, a possible location of the [missing] people could be established. An operative plan and programme of further activities will be devised. It could be said now that the settlement of three units is imperative to carry our search and rescue operations. The presence of divers is a must.
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Miners remain missing at Russia largest diamond pit
Nine workers remain missing deep beneath the ground at Russia's largest diamond mine, a week after water rushed into an underground shaft.
The flood occurred when more than a hundred miners were working inside the Mir pit in eastern Siberia.
The mine, which is located near the town of Mirny in Yakutia, is owned by the state-run Alrosa diamond company, who said most of the trapped labourers had been returned to the surface.
However, rescue workers and divers are still toiling to get the remain…
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Biggest diamond mine
Biggest diamond mine. It's not in Africa. It's in Russia
The Mir mine (Russian: кимберлитовая алмазная трубка «Мир» kimberlitovaya almaznaya trubka Mir; English: kimberlite diamond pipe Peace), also called the Mirny mine, is an open pit diamond mine located in Mirny, Sakha Republic, in the Siberian region of eastern Russia. The mine is more than 525 meters (1,722 ft) deep (4th in the world), has a diameter of 1,200 m (3,900 ft),[1] and is one of the largest excavated holes in the world.
Open-pit mining began in 1957 and was discontinued in 2001. Since 2009, it has been active as an underground diamond mine.[2]
Discovery
The diamond-bearing deposits were discovered on June 13, 1955, by Soviet geologists Yuri Khabardin, Ekaterina Elagina and Viktor Avdeenko during the large Amakinsky Expedition in Yakut ASSR. They found traces of the volcanic rock kimberlite, which is usually associated with diamonds. This finding was the second success in the search for kimberlite in Russia, after numerous failed expeditions of the 1940s and 1950s. (The first was Zarnitsa mine, 1954.) For this discovery, in 1957 Khabardin was given the Lenin Prize, one of the highest awards in the Soviet Union.[3][4]
Development
The development of the mine started in 1957, in extremely harsh climate conditions. Seven months of winter per year froze the ground, making it hard to mine. During the brief summer months, the ground turned to slush. Buildings had to be raised on piles, so that they would not sink from their warmth melting the permafrost. The main processing plant had to be built on better ground, found 20 km (12 mi) away from the mine. The winter temperatures were so low that car tires and steel would shatter and oil would freeze. During the winter, workers used jet engines to thaw and dig out the permafrost or blasted it with dynamite to get access to the underlying kimberlite. The entire mine had to be covered at night to prevent the machinery from freezing.[5][6]
In the 1960s the mine was producing 10,000,000 carats (2,000 kg; 4,400 lb) of diamond per year, of which a relatively high fraction (20%) were of gem quality.[5] The upper layers of the mine (down to 340 m (1,120 ft)) had very high diamond contents of four carats (0.80 g) per tonne of ore, with a relatively high ratio of gems to industrial stones. The yield decreased to about 2 carats (0.40 g) per tonne and the production rate slowed to 2,000,000 carats (400 kg; 880 lb) per year near the pit bottom. The largest diamond of the mine was found on 23 December 1980; it weighed 342.5 carats (68.50 g) and was named 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Russian: XXVI съезд КПСС). The mine operation was interrupted in the 1990s at a depth of 340 m (1,120 ft) after the pit bottom became flooded, but resumed later.[7][8]
De Beers involvement
The rapid development of the Mir mine had worried the De Beers company, which at that time led a cartel that controlled distribution of most of the world's diamonds. De Beers had to buy Soviet diamonds in order to control the market price, and therefore needed to know as much as possible about the Russian mining developments. In the 1970s, in the midst of a proxy cold war in Southern Africa, De Beers requested permission to visit the Mir mine. Permission was granted under the condition that Soviet experts would visit De Beers diamond mines in South Africa. De Beers executive Sir Philip Oppenheimer and chief geologist Barry Hawthorne arrived in Moscow in the summer of 1976. They were intentionally delayed in Moscow by the arrangement of a series of meetings and lavish banquets with Soviet geologists, mineralogists, engineers, and mine managers. When Oppenheimer and Hawthorne finally reached the Mir mine, their visas were about to expire, so that they could only stay for 20 minutes. Even that short time was sufficient to get some important details. For example, the Soviets did not use water during the ore processing at all, which was astonishing to De Beers. The reason was that water would freeze most of the year, and dry crushing was used instead. De Beers also overestimated the size of the mine's pit.[9]
Operations
The Mir mine was the first developed and the largest diamond mine in the Soviet Union.[10] Its surface operation lasted 44 years, finally closing in June 2001.[8] After the collapse of the USSR, in the 1990s, the mine was operated by the Sakha diamond company, which reported annual profits in excess of $600 million[clarification needed] from diamond sales.[11]
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This diamond is one of the largest diamonds ever found! The diamond is from the egyptian era and belonged to a pharaoh. Here are some of the questions I can answer for you at this time.
1. What were in the two bags under the spike moss ball? They were two bags filled with rocks used as weights to help sink the ball.
2. Why did you break the clay ball with the symbol on it? The ball felt very heavy and could tell something was inside of it.
3. What was the writings on the ball? The writings on the ball was a accent egyptian symbol of the crook and flail. The symbol meant royalty.
4. How much is the diamond worth? Yet to be determined till it goes up for auction July 2019.
(Alexander Pushkin)
Russia / USSR
Mined at the Udachnaya kimberlitic pipe (Yakutia, Russia) in 1989. It is the second largest gem diamond ever found in Russia or the former USSR and is currently kept as of 2016 in the Russian Diamond Fund (Moscow Kremlin.
(Allnatt Diamond) -yellow
South Africa -disputed
A 101.29-carat (20.258 g) antique cushion-shaped brilliant fancy vivid yellow diamond which is believed to have been found in the Premier mine in the South African Republic. It got the name Allnatt[3] after one of its owners, Major Alfred Ernest Allnatt. The diamond was sold for a little more than $3 million at Christie's auction in Geneva in May 1996.
(Allnatt Diamond)
Amarillo Starlight - colorless
United States of America
The largest diamond found by a park visitor in the Crater of Diamonds State Park in Arkansas since 1972, when it was established as a state park. It was found by W. W. Johnson of Amarillo, Texas in 1975 and was a 16.37 carats (3.27 g) white diamond, but it has since been cut into a 7.54 carats (1,510 mg) marquise shape.
(Amsterdam Diamond) - black
Africa
A 33.74 carat (6.748 g) pear-shaped black diamond which sold for $352,000 in 2001.
(Archduke Joseph) -colorless
India
Historical cushion-shaped, D colour, internally flawless Golconda diamond, sold on 13 November 2012 by Christies to an anonymous buyer for US$21.4M.4
(Argyle Pink Jubilee) - pink
Australia
Argyle Pink Jubilee 5 is the largest pink diamond ever found in Australia. The diamond was found in Western Australia in Argyle Mine who is the largest producer of pink diamonds in the world.
(Ashberg Diamond) - amber
South Africa
102.48 carats (20.496 g)
(Aurora Butterfly) of Peace A display of 240 fancy colored diamonds.
Aurora Butterfly of Peace in daylight.
(Beau Sancy) - colorless
India-
A 34.98-carat (6.996 g) 6 pear-shaped diamond, which sold for US $10 million in 2012. Not to be confused with the Sancy.
(Black Orlov ) - black
India-
a 67.50-carat (13.500 g) cushion-cut black diamond, also called the Eye of Brahma Diamond.
(Blue Moon) of Josephine Diamond - blue
South Africa
Found in the Cullinan mine in 2014, cushion-shaped, and originally named the 'Blue Moon' diamond. Purchased for a record breaking 48.6 million Swiss francs (US48.4 million) at a Sotheby's auction in Geneva on 11 November 2015 b
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