The profession of a miner is known for its danger and complexity. Work at the mine greatly undermines human health. Despite all the security systems, every year in the mines several dozen people die. But people still continue to descend to the ground to earn money for life.
Diamonds, coal, ore - all these minerals are mined in mines, since they lie deep underground. High air temperature and lack of sunlight: these are the main negative factors under ground, especially at a depth of several kilometers. What is the deepest mine in the world ?
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Komsomolskaya depth 1200 m
Designed in 1977 at the Vorkuta coal field. It is the second largest mine in the Pechora coal basin. Appeared, thanks to the idea to combine the three mines into one.
Currently, the mine works at a depth of more than 1 kilometer. This is the deepest mine in our country. The chess field is 11 km from the city of Vorkuta. True, coal reserves are running out: they will last until 2018.
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Mine to them. V.M.Bazhanova depth of 1200 m
Built in 1964.The mine, which occupies the 9th place in the world's highest depth, has a capacity of 1.25 million tons of coal per year. Industrial reserves are 72.4 million tons, reserves of 15.8 million tons. The mine is located in Makeevka( Ukraine, Donetsk region).
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Mine to them. Skochinsky depth 1200 m
The mine, located in the city of Donetsk( Kirovsky district), was designed in 1959.Construction began in 1962 and lasted 13 years, until 1975.Initially, the mine was called "Petrovskaya-Glubokaya", but it was renamed in honor of the scientist and academician A.A.Skochinsky, awarded five Orders of Lenin. They built a mine, ranked 8th in the list of the deepest mines in the world, to replace the old pre-war mines, which it was not possible to exploit at a depth of more than 900 meters. It has an area of 100 square kilometers and reserves of more than 150 million tons. One of the most technically equipped mines in the world.
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Progress depth 1340 m
The mine, with a capacity of 1800 tons per year, was built in 1973.It has reserves of 95.5 million tons per year. Power: 650 thousand tons per year. It has three central stems located on the central platform. Air to the mine, which is one of the deepest in the world, is fed by two crenellated trunks, 8 meters in diameter.
At the moment, Progress works on the most powerful and mature h 8. The mine is located in the Ukrainian city of Torez( Donetsk region).
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Guards depth 1430 m
This mine, ranked 6th in the list of the deepest mines in the world, began its work in 1967.It mainly develops medium and high strength ore, 100-200 meters long. Preparatory work is at a depth of 1150 meters. And mountain - 1350-1430 meters. The reserves are investigated to a depth of 1,900 meters. The mine produces chamber systems of development and systems with the collapse of rocks. At work, more than 1,300 laborers are involved. It is located in the Ukrainian city of Krivoy Rog.
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Shakhtorskaya - Deep depth 1546 m
The mine is located in the east of Donbass. It is one of the youngest and most powerful mines in the world. It was built in 1986.Miners extract on it energy coal of the highest class, going then for the use of power plants. The reserves of the deep mine, which occupies the middle of our top, are limited, but they will last for half a century. Do not exclude proven reserves, which can be used in the future. Coal mining, which increases every year, runs at a depth of more than 1,400 meters. Shakhtarskaya-Glubokaya is one of the most promising enterprises in Ukraine.
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Spreader Depth 3777 m
Mine, depth of 3777 meters, is one of the deepest in the world. Most of the metal produced on it is gold. It is located near Johannesburg in South Africa. The plans of the mine management make the depth even greater. The "meadow" is known for the fact that in 2002 scientists found in the mine an extremophile bacterium that lives off radioactive ores. The mine belongs to the company Anglogold Ashanti .
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Western deep mine depth 3900 m
The mine, which took the bronze of our top, has a depth of 3900 meters. Workers work there, in terrible and extreme conditions. After all, the air temperature in the mine rises above 60 degrees, and there is a constant danger of explosions and breakthroughs of groundwater. But for the owners of the mine, located in South Africa, the life of miners is not so important, because it's about gold mining!
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Witwaterservand depth 4500 m
"Witwaterservand", which took the silver of our rating of the deepest mines in the world, like the two previous mines, is in South Africa. The workers are engaged in gold mining under conditions that are not any better than at the "Western deep mine".The temperature inside the building reaches 50 degrees. And this despite powerful ventilation.
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Tau-Ton depth 5000 m
"Tau Ton" is not only the deepest, but also the largest mine in the world. The number of workers is 35,000( of which 6,000 are miners).The mine, whose name translates as "the great lion," is 50 kilometers from Johannesburg. The beginning of the construction of the Tau Tony was started in 1957, and commissioning was carried out in 1962.
Here are awful and dangerous conditions for work. After all, the area in which the mine is located is seismically dangerous. And the temperature inside reaches 60 degrees. And only with the help of special potholes air can cool down to 30 degrees.
