Mirny Mine: The Diamond Pit That Can Bring Down A Plane

What at first appears to be an optical illusion, the Mirny Mine is in fact very real and one of the largest man-made holes in existence. But this open pit diamond mine located in the Siberian region of eastern Russia has an interesting ability -- the ability to suck aircrafts into it.

[JK-ghej]

That moment when you use the same thumbnail twice and when Stalin rises from the dead to award a geologist a medal

[DeathcastGaming]

Lol how can Stalin give out awards in 1955 when he died in 1953?

[toehawk]

I grew up north of the Arctic circle,
I've seen temperatures as low as -60 and have worked in mining at similar latitudes
Oil does not freeze, car tires don't shatter. It's entirely possible to run a mining operation at this latitude
Not even the North Pole has a winter average of -40 (hovers around-38 depending on which months you average)

Check your facts. This video is bogus. A simple Google search refutes a bunch of dates and facts

[kromus]

Mirny Mine: The diamond pit that can sometimes cause planes to wobble inconveniently.

[alexwilliams]

I like how the title of the video alludes to a phenomenon where planes get sucked to the ground over the whole but only 1 sentence of the video is dedicated to that fact and nearly no information at all is given about it

[ericwoytasek]

First of all, the Soviets didn't need DeBeers approval to do anything, much less their permission. Secondly, if you look on Google Earth, there is a major air port with its runway only few hundred feet from the edge of the mine. The restricted space must be very small.

[maxj]

-40 is NOT cold enough to freeze oil and shatter car tires. Very, very far from it. Your average vehicle, with the proper coolant, will have very little problem operating pretty much completely normally at that temperature.

[augustuswayne]

You have your dates wrong because Joseph Stalin died on March 5th 1953 of a brain aneurysm !!! So he might have returned from hell and awarded the men the medals !!!

[kirbywaite]

It would be interesting to know on what grounds the de beers demanded to inspect the mine in a sovereign country.

[maidenminnesota]

Liquid nitrogen is -320°F, and rubber will shatter at _that_ temperature. It does *_not_* shatter at -40°F. I live in Minnesota, and we don't have frozen oil and shattered tires in _any_ of our cars when the temperature hits -40° or even the record when it hit -60°F.

[btetschner]

A+ video!
LOVE IT! What a fascinating and helpful history, very unique!

[Gurkenpudding]

I am not an expert about Fahrenheit but I know approx 30° Fahrenheit is about 0° Celsius ... and Siberia with 40° Fahrenheit is like a Summer Heat Wave. -40° Celsius is realistic. Even the other comments with the Stalins awarding price after death is kind of sus to me - maybe this vid is trash. Just an idea.

[alaskansummertime]

They wanted to inspect the mine because the Soviets were actually manufacturing diamonds and claiming they were all coming from this mine.

[JAMM]

“Cold enough to freeze oil and shatter car tires”.


Nope.

[lrn_news]

Wonder what the town's economy is now that the mine is closed, it still has 35, 000 residents

[paulerickson]

Why did Russia have to let the inspectors from DeBeers in to inspect anything?

[sshelton]

The airspace is restricted, but there is an airport built right next to it.

[seankennedy]

What is this thing about not providing metric measurements for the 7 billion people who don't use imperial measures??

[graver]

I didn't come here to hear about diamonds how tf does it suck in planes?

[betweenthedimensions]

I’m pretty concerned that all the wrong facts in here weren’t corrected after 2 years. Makes me very skeptical of all the “facts” in the rest of Weird History’s videos...