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A visitor from United States posted Mon September 7, 2009: I've seen a better photo with the perspective of the size of the town to the ratio of the pit. The town is an 1/8" and the pit 5". Geologically speaking, why is there no water in the pit and where is the overburden?
A visitor from Austria posted Mon July 13, 2009: OMG .... black hole!
A visitor from United States posted Fri July 10, 2009: Beautiful, but i'd hate to fall in, i'd keep going and going....Delta88
A visitor from Jordan posted Fri June 19, 2009: Very scary and holly
A visitor from - posted Mon June 15, 2009: Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the birth place of Godzilla!!! (Ali Aminzadeh)
A visitor from United States posted Wed February 11, 2009: That is the biggest hole i have ever seen in my intier life, i told my mom that that could be there big swimming pool.
A visitor from United States posted Mon February 9, 2009: I'd hate to go in there....
A visitor from Finland posted Mon November 13, 2006: Just the fact that it is the deepest hole for comercial reasons in the world made by manpower is impressing me. additional the imagination what happens if one plane goes thrue and fall into the hole....,horrible.
A visitor from United Kingdom posted Mon September 11, 2006: Par-excellent photography. Balance and contrast just right. The grounded aircraft help one to see the scale! The shadow is in justthe correct spot J.S
A visitor from Netherlands posted Thu August 31, 2006: Top
A visitor from Russian Federation posted Mon June 26, 2006: --Mirny is a closed town...-- Nope, it's alive. This is a diamond mine.
A visitor from United States posted Fri June 23, 2006: I work in an open-pit coal mine in Wyoming, U.S.A. Our pit is huge and all our trucks and shovels the biggest in the world, but this mine makes ours look like nothing. No way in hell I'd work there.
A visitor from - posted Sun June 18, 2006: Very fascinating.......amazing what man can do when given a shovel and a pail
A visitor from United Kingdom posted Tue June 13, 2006: Wow... it looks amazing... as I know... Mirny is a closed town... and it is quite amzing to see...what theyve got out there...
A visitor from Australia posted Thu May 25, 2006: This picture is just mind blowing. The dimension and depth is almost unbelievable. I did not know this sort of thing existed. Thank you for enlighting my knowledge.
A visitor from Chile posted Thu April 6, 2006: Wow it is just awesome, nice shot
A visitor from United States posted Thu April 6, 2006: This is a great shot! This pit is 1.2 km wide and 525 m deep, but isn't that big. The Bingham Copper Pit in Salt Lake City is 4 km wide and 804 m deep. The copper is used to bring power to our homes so we can play on the internet, see at night, and remove our jacket in the house. It also powers the jets we are looking at, and the airports, runway lights, etc. Why would there be a short final here? The pit is below runway level.
A visitor from Brazil posted Tue March 21, 2006: Very good!!!
A visitor from Brazil posted Fri March 17, 2006: Amazing photo. To find it on Google Earth: N 62° 32' 5" E 114° 2' 20"
A visitor from Russian Federation posted Thu March 16, 2006: Wow!
A visitor from France posted Sun January 22, 2006: Impressive, it's not cool at all to overrun the runway there...
A visitor from Russian Federation posted Sat January 14, 2006: A small note - this mine is not closed. It just moved to underground mode
A visitor from Poland posted Tue January 3, 2006: Big, as everything in former Soviet Union (and, I guess , partially dug out by prisoners from Lager nearby)... Can anyone post the coords Lat/Lon to make it find easily e.g. on Google Earth?
A visitor from Poland posted Fri December 30, 2005: Amazing picture!
A visitor from Russian Federation posted Fri December 16, 2005: Great picture - one of the most impressive at Airliners.Net. Concerning destruction of invironment - the best way to protect nature - to return to caves. But it will not be planes and photocameras at the new stone age. And websites as well.
A visitor from Brazil posted Tue December 6, 2005: Awesome
A visitor from Germany posted Thu December 1, 2005: Impressive comparison of "sizes"!
A visitor from India posted Sun November 27, 2005: Gives a real feel how big it is in Diameter.
A visitor from United States posted Sat November 26, 2005: Having just read Stephen King's "Desperation", I find this photo a little... DISTURBING. >:)
A visitor from Ukraine posted Tue November 8, 2005: Coool
A visitor from Poland posted Fri September 2, 2005: It is 525 meters deep and 1,2 km wide. Very impressive indeed.
A visitor from Germany posted Tue August 30, 2005: Very impressive! The hole's diameter is approx. 1 km - I wonder how deep it is...
A visitor from Poland posted Tue August 30, 2005: How could man do such environment destruction ?

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