We all must have seen many mines and factories, especially the mine, located in eastern Siberia, 'Mirny Mine' is the world's largest diamond mine. Out of this quarry, diamonds are produced. This mine is 1722 feet deep and 3900 feet wide. It is also the second-largest man-made crater in the world. This mine was discovered by a team of Soviet geologists on June 13, 1955. The team to find it included Yuri Khabardin, Ekaterina Albina and Victor Evdinko.
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Soviet geologist UV Khabardin has been given the Lenin Prize in the year 1957 for finding it. After the information received, the work of the development of this mine has been started in 1957. The weather is extremely bad in most months of the year. In winter, the temperature drops so much that oil also gets frozen in the trains and tires break. The crews used jet engines and dynamite to dig it. It was covered at night so that the machines do not go bad. After the discovery of this mine, Russia had become the world's third-largest producer of diamonds.
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First, 10 million or 1 crore carat diamond is extracted from this mine every year. According to sources, this mine is so huge that many times the helicopters passing over it were absorbed by the downward air pressure. After which the passing of helicopters over it was banned. In 2011, this mine has been completely closed.
