What was the first diamond mine in Yakutia? What is the biggest hole we see often in pictures of Mirny? Certainly, it is the MIR Diamond Pipe. Read further to learn about the biggest hole in the world.
History key facts
On June 13, 1955, in the course of Yakut ASSR Amakinsky Expedition, geologists Yuri Khabardin, Ekaterina Elagina, V. Avdeenko discovered the MIR (lit: Peace) diamond pipe. The telegram was sent to Moscow, saying “Lighted up a pipe of peace. Tobacco is awesome!”
In June 1956, the USSR’s Ministry of Non-Ferrous Metallurgy took a decision of exploring the MIR Pipe, which provided for the construction of diamond mining and processing facilities in the vicinity of the Mir Pipe.
On June 11, 1957, the career “MIR” was established.
On January 12, 1958, excavator operator B. Korablev unloaded the first bucket of MIR Pipe ore.
In the course of the mine exploitation, the MIR Pipe was reconstructed three times.
April 30, 2001, the last tones of ore were unloaded.
On May 1, 2001, open pit mining in the MIR Pipe was stopped by the decision of ALROSA.
Parameters
Hole depth: 525 m.
Upper diameter: min. 1100 m, max. 1200 m.
Lower diameter: min. 160 m, max. 310 m.
Unloaded rocks volume: 168.7 million cubic meters, including 67928 thousand tones of ore.
Sold diamonds: $17.5 billion.
Annual mining capacity: 2 million karats.
Underground mineral waters income speed: 1150 m/h.
Spiral descending way length: 7.7 km.
Mining depth: 1235 m.
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