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Apr 22, 2023 · The farthest that humans have ever dug into the Earth is at the Kola Superdeep Borehole, a 7.5-mile-deep drill hole in northwestern Russia. That's deep, but it still doesn't come close to cracking ...
May 21, 2021 · The borehole itself was actually made up of numerous holes that branch off from a central hole, the deepest of which — SG-3 — runs 12,261 meters (40,226 feet) deep into Earth’s crust.
- Tom Hale
- 50 Years of Digging
- Life on The Edge
- What Will Happen to The Quarry?
They say that a fox helped people discover diamonds there. It dug up a hole under a tree whose roots were sticking out as a result of a landslide. In June 1955, geologists looking for kimberlite (a type of diamond) noticed the strange shade of the earth dug up by the fox. Testing revealed that kimberlite was indeed present. The same year a settleme...
The first thing that strikes you in Mirny is just how close the city is to the quarry. In certain photos, it seems that the houses are standing right at the edge. But fears of a landslide - or of the entire city being sucked up by the pit - seem to be the last thing on people’s minds. “Life near the quarry isn’t all that difficult, it’s just that t...
After the mine was shut down, there weren’t any plans for it for a long time. There was even an eco-city project online, which proposed a dome with its own biosphere for 100,000 people - living in the pit itself, of course. The idea was put forth by Russian architectural firm ‘Ab Elis’. However, Yakutians never seriously discussed what appeared to ...
- Yekaterina Sinelschikova
Oct 20, 2023 · Underneath — and virtually unseeable from ground level — at just 9 inches (23 centimeters) in diameter, is the world's deepest man-made hole. The Kola Superdeep Borehole runs about 40,230 feet (12,262 meters) or 7.6 miles (12.2 kilometers) into Earth's surface.
Nov 10, 2009 · Discover Kola Superdeep Borehole in Murmansk, Russia: The deepest hole drilled in the name of science, where evidence of Precambrian life was found.
The new hole, that was accidentally discovered in the summer of 2020 by a Russian TV crew flying over the Siberian tundra, was 30 meters deep and 20 meters wide. A casual observer must be ...
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