"Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth."
... Henry David Thoreau, 1817 - 1862, author, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, and historian.
"THE eastern Siberian mining town of Mirny is home to
the second-largest excavated hole in the world. The Mir diamond mine
operated for 54 years, producing over 10 million carats (2 tonnes) of
diamonds per year at its operational peak in the 1960s.
It was established in 1957, after
geologists discovered traces of kimberlite, a rock known to sometimes
contain diamonds. Once excavation was under way, the town of Mirny
sprang up. Now closed, the Mir mine once employed 3600 people. Today the
town's 37,000 inhabitants go about their lives next to a hole 525
metres deep and 1.2 kilometres wide."
....New Scientist
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