Mother Nature certainly has more than a thousand secrets being kept away, some where exposed by the humans but yet some are still yet to be found. A sink-hole, is natural depression or hole found in the surface of the Earth. Some sink-hole were naturally made, however there were a few that was actually the side effect of mining.
I now would like to share with you, 10 weird and largest sink-hole in the world.
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| The Gate, Turkmenistan |
It is also known as Darvaza, located in the middle of the Karakum Desert. This sink-hole was given a name, "Door to Hell" as up until today it is still actively breathing fire and pumping out sulphur gas. It was believe that the diameter of this hole is 60 meters with a depth of 20 meters.
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| Kimberley Diamond Mining, South Africa |
The mine was said to be dug up without using any machinery, with the area of 17 hectares and below the surface a large hole was produced with a depth of 1097 meters deep. It is also known as the "Big Hole". The hole is so large with its beautiful blue water made it visible from space.
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| Monticello Dam, California |
This drain hole is located in Napa County. It is also known as "Bottomless Pit". This glory hole was constructed between 1953 and 1957, with a diameter of 22 meters wide whilst the critical drop if 86 meters.
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| Bingham Canyon Mine, Utah |
This is the largest man-made hole in the world. The mining giant size of 4 km wide with a depth of 1.2 km into the soil, the extraction began in 1863 and still is active up to today.
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| Great Blue Hole, Belize |
The
Great Blue Hole is a large submarine
sink-hole of the coast of
Belize. The hole is circular in shape with the size of 305 meters and a depth of 122 meters. It was a famous scuba diving location.
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Mirny Diamond Mine, Serbia
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The second largest man-made hole in the world is a diamond mine located on the outskirts of
Mirny, a small town in eastern
Siberia. Excavation on the pit began in
1955, and today it is 525 meters deep, and 1200 meters across.
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| Diavik Mine, Canada |
The Diavik Diamond Mine is a diamond mine in the North Slave Region of the Northwest Territories, Canada, about 300 kilometres north of Yellowknife. Owned by Harry Winston Diamond Corporation and Diavik Diamond Mines Inc, this mine has been producing over 1600 kg or diamonds each year.
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| Huge Hole, Guatemala |
This huge hole was a disaster to the people in Guatemala, it was found in February 2007 as deep as 100.5 meters. It was a reaction towards a poor sewer.
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| Udachnaya Pipe, Russia |
This diamond mine with a depth of 600 meters was found in Jun 1955, two days after a Soviet geologist, Vladimir Shchukin and his team found a priceless diamond.
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| Chuquicamata, Chile |
This 850 meters deep mine was also known as Chuqui and has been a huge producer of cooper since a decade ago with the founding of the Cooper Man in the year 1898.
Either Man-Made or Mother Nature, beauty of these sink-hole are amazing.