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Photos: Earth's largest wound exposed the world's largest Crater of Diamonds

Post at 2009-12-16 10:00:38 | 2456 views

"Peace" diamond mine located in Russia's Siberian permafrost near the city of Ya-khutia, where is the world's one of the coldest winter temp

"Peace" diamond mine located in Russia's Siberian permafrost near the city of Ya-khutia, where is the world's one of the coldest winter temperatures as low as minus 50 degrees Celsius. However, in this very remote, remote areas, the former Soviet Union and Russia went so far as the miners dug up the world's largest "artificial cave" - "Peace" diamond mine. This huge cave diameter of about 1600 meters, a depth of 533 meters, from the satellite photos point of view, it looks like a big wound on Earth.

"Pit gas" can swallow a helicopter. It is learned that, since the diamond mine is so huge, so that the helicopter has also been prohibited from flying above it. Because the large hole caused by air turbulence enough to inhale the helicopter within its boundaries. Once the helicopter was giant holes disorder air turbulence "captured", it would be the odds.

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

Was a top-secret Soviet Union Peace Diamond Mine is the world's largest man-made cave. "Peace" Diamond Mine was one of the Kremlin's top-secret, its output of a large number of diamonds to make the US-Soviet hegemony in the former Soviet Union has a strong economic capital, even today, the Russian government will continue it as a "treasure bowl", eager to From this huge pit dug up more diamonds treasures

Since the last century, during the Khrushchev era of the first batch of 50 diamonds from the "peace" in the diamond mines have been dug up, it has been Russia's miners from the mine in the dug out 165 million cubic meters of rock.

It is reported that "peace" in the diamond mine there exhausted one day. In fact, "Aierluosa" The company has begun to look to other Siberian regions and even abroad.

The world's largest Crater of Diamonds

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