Mirny

Biggest diamond mine in the world, Mirny, Russia, East Siberia.

World’s Supply of Diamonds is Running Out Says DeBeers | Impact Lab 2010

He had once orbited across the Antarctic under a full moon, only a hundred miles up; it required little effort to imagine that he was back there, waiting to exchange greetings with Mirny or McMurdo ....

Tin 2010

It is actually a diamond mine in Eastern Siberia near the town of Mirna Mirny at 525 metres deep and a diameter of 1.25 km.

CD Hole Art 2006

Most of the mining is done around Mirny, where there are rich seams of diamond-bearing kimberlite, and where the biggest man-made hole on earth has been gouged.

The Arctic Oil Rush Shoumatoff, Alex 2008

It is actually a diamond mine in Eastern Siberia near the town of Mirna Mirny at 525 metres deep and a diameter of 1.25 km.

2006 » July 2006

High and remote, Vostok cannot be adequately supplied by air, so each summer a convoy of Kherkovchenka tractors heavily laden with food, fuel and other essential goods sets out from Mirny, the Russian station on the east coast.

Terra Incognita Wheeler, Sarah 1996

He had once orbited across the Antarctic under a full moon, only a hundred miles up; it required little effort to imagine that he was back there, waiting to exchange greetings with Mirny or McMurdo ....

The Lost Worlds of 2001 Clarke, Arthur C. 1972

A bit later on that same arena, Colin Fleming and Ross Hutchins play second seeds Max Mirny and Daniel Nestor.

BBC News - Home 2011

Parts of a Russian heavy-lift military cargo plane Ilyushin Il-76, that crashed on takeoff from Mirny in the Sakha Republic in Siberia are seen in this image taken from television broadcast Sunday, Nov, 1, 2009.

WN.com - Articles related to Military cargo plane crashes at Elmendorf Air Force Base in Alaska; no word on casualties 2010

A girl walked past a burned house on Thursday in Mirny, a Russian village ravaged by wildfires sparked during the worst drought in decades.

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