Here’s what lurks inside the world’s deepest pits

In our quest for natural resource , man have dug very , very deep into the Earth . We have n’t raise a Balrog yet , but we ’ve accidentallylit cavity fires that burn for decades , andwe’ve caused temblor . Here are some insane pictures of the deepest pits we ’ve ever dug .

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The Kola Superdeep Borehole in the Pechengsky District, Kola Peninsula, Russia, the result of a Soviet scientific drilling project between 1970 and 2005. The deepest borehole, named SG-3, reached in 1989 is 40,230 ft (12,262 metres) deep.

The drilling was halt in 1992 due to higher - than - ask temperature ( 180 ° C/356 ° F instead of 100 ° C/212 ° degree Fahrenheit ) . The undertaking was closed in 2005 because of lack of funding . All of the equipment was scrapped and the site is abandon since 2008 .

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The world’s deepest mine, the TauTona gold mine in Carletonville, South Africa with its maximum depth of 2.4 mi (3.9 km), reached in 2008.

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The KTB super deep borehole, the result of the German Continental Deep Drilling Program near Windischeschenbach, Germany. The 9,101 m (29859 ft or 5.655 mi) deep hole was drilled between 1990 and 1994, and the temperature was more than 500 °F (260 °C) down there.

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The Bingham Canyon Mine, also known as the Kennecott Copper Mine, southwest of Salt Lake City, Utah. The now 107-year-old mine has a 0.6 miles (970 m) deep, 2.5 miles (4 km) wide pit.

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The 570 m (1870 ft) deep Fimiston Open Pit (or Super Pit), a gold mine off the Goldfields Highway, Western Australia

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The Tiber Oil Field in the Gulf of Mexico, a deepwater offshore oil field with a 10,685 m (25,056) deep well under 1,260 m (4,130 ft) of water, drilled in 2009. Its total depth is 11,945 m (39190 ft).

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Chuquicamata (or Chuqui), outside of Calama, Chile. Its 850 metres (2,790 ft) deep pit is the second deepest after Bingham Canyon Mine.

( via Google Maps , Robin NystromandCodelco )

The Door To Hell, or Darvaza, in the middle of the Karakum Desert, Turkmenistan

A boring fishing gear was set up here by Soviet geologist in 1971 and start operations , but the background collapse into a wide crater and the rig disappeared . A immense amount of methane petrol was release , so the scientist decided to burn down it off . They thought it would only take a few days , butthe methane has been burning since then .

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The Berkeley Pit, a former open pit copper mine in Butte, Montana. It’s filled to a depth of 900 ft (270m) with acidic water and contains some dangerous chemicals like arsenic, sulfuric acid and cadmium, among others.

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The Big Hole (or the Kimberley Diamond Mine) in Kimberley, South Africa, excavated by hand between 1871 and 1914. It has a surface of 17 hectares (42 acres) and a width of 1519 ft (463 m). It had a depth of 787 ft (240 m), but partially infilled with debris, so it’s 705 ft (215 m) deep now.

The Mir mine, a former diamond mine (1957-2011) in Mirny, Eastern Siberia, Russia. The airspace above the 1,722 ft (525 m) deep pit is closed for helicopter because some of them were sucked in by the air flow.

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Nevada National Security Site, 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas, Nevada. Nuclear testing began in January 1951.

The site contains more than 1,100 building , 400 miles ( 640 klick ) of paved and 300 miles ( 480 kilometer ) unpaved road .

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The deepest hand-dug well in the world, in Woodingdean, East Sussex, England.

It was dug between 1858 and 1862 , and its depth is 1,285 ft ( 392 m ) .

( Illustration viaWikimedia Commons )

Bonus: The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory, the world’s deepest physics laboratory, 6,800 feet (2,07 km) underground in the still operating Creighton Mine, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. It was used between 1999 and 2006 to detect solar neutrinos through their interactions with a tank of heavy water.

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The Kola Superdeep Borehole in the Pechengsky District, Kola Peninsula, Russia, the result of a Soviet scientific drilling project between 1970 and 2005. The deepest borehole, named SG-3, reached in 1989 is 40,230 ft (12,262 metres) deep.#

The world’s deepest mine, the TauTona gold mine in Carletonville, South Africa with its maximum depth of 2.4 mi (3.9 km), reached in 2008.#

The KTB super deep borehole, the result of the German Continental Deep Drilling Program near Windischeschenbach, Germany. The 9,101 m (29859 ft or 5.655 mi) deep hole was drilled between 1990 and 1994, and the temperature was more than 500 °F (260 °C) down there.#

The Bingham Canyon Mine, also known as the Kennecott Copper Mine, southwest of Salt Lake City, Utah. The now 107-year-old mine has a 0.6 miles (970 m) deep, 2.5 miles (4 km) wide pit.#

The 570 m (1870 ft) deep Fimiston Open Pit (or Super Pit), a gold mine off the Goldfields Highway, Western Australia#

The Tiber Oil Field in the Gulf of Mexico, a deepwater offshore oil field with a 10,685 m (25,056) deep well under 1,260 m (4,130 ft) of water, drilled in 2009. Its total depth is 11,945 m (39190 ft).#

Chuquicamata (or Chuqui), outside of Calama, Chile. Its 850 metres (2,790 ft) deep pit is the second deepest after Bingham Canyon Mine.#

The Door To Hell, or Darvaza, in the middle of the Karakum Desert, Turkmenistan#

The Berkeley Pit, a former open pit copper mine in Butte, Montana. It’s filled to a depth of 900 ft (270m) with acidic water and contains some dangerous chemicals like arsenic, sulfuric acid and cadmium, among others.#

The Big Hole (or the Kimberley Diamond Mine) in Kimberley, South Africa, excavated by hand between 1871 and 1914. It has a surface of 17 hectares (42 acres) and a width of 1519 ft (463 m). It had a depth of 787 ft (240 m), but partially infilled with debris, so it’s 705 ft (215 m) deep now.#

The Mir mine, a former diamond mine (1957-2011) in Mirny, Eastern Siberia, Russia. The airspace above the 1,722 ft (525 m) deep pit is closed for helicopter because some of them were sucked in by the air flow.#

Nevada National Security Site, 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas, Nevada. Nuclear testing began in January 1951.#

The deepest hand-dug well in the world, in Woodingdean, East Sussex, England.#

Bonus: The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory, the world’s deepest physics laboratory, 6,800 feet (2,07 km) underground in the still operating Creighton Mine, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. It was used between 1999 and 2006 to detect solar neutrinos through their interactions with a tank of heavy water.#

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