Mining Magazine August 2015 | Page 22

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05 ) Diavik Diamo

The Diavik Diamond Mine the largest open pit mines in 2003 , the diamond mine seven kilometers wide and eight million carats a year . situated on an island in the Gras in the Northwest Terr an unincorporated joint ve Tinto and Dominion Diamo

06 ) Hull-Rust-Mahoning Mine

What began as an underground mine has transformed into one of the biggest open-pit mines in the world . Nicknamed the “ Grand Canyon of the North ,” the Hull-Rust-Mahoning Mine in Minnesota , US measures a whopping eight kilometers long , 3.2 kilometers wide and 180 meters deep . Since 1895 , the mine has shipped more than 800 million tons of iron and removed more than 1.4 billion tons of earth and 2,000 acres of land . The mine is so gigantic that it has become a national monument for Minnesota .
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