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The Kola Superdeep Borehole SG-3 (Russian: Кольская сверхглубокая скважина СГ-3, romanized: Kol'skaya sverkhglubokaya skvazhina SG-3) is the deepest human-made hole on Earth (since 1979), which attained maximum true vertical depth of 12,262 metres (40,230 ft; 7.619 mi) in 1989. [1]
This hard-to-find rusty cap in the ruins of a building in Russia's Kola Peninsula. As the race in space was winding down, soviet scientists turned inwards. You'd never guess that this is the site ...
The temperature deep within was 1,000 °C (1,800 °F), heat from a chamber of fire from which screaming could be heard. The Soviet Union had, in fact, drilled a hole more than 12 km (7.5 miles) deep, the Kola Superdeep Borehole , located not in Siberia but on the Kola Peninsula , which shares borders with Norway and Finland .
Harwoods Hole – cave system located in the northwest of the South Island of New Zealand, New Zealand's deepest vertical shaft; Hutchinson's Hole – a large sinkhole in Saint Ann Parish in northern Jamaica, used by a serial killer to dispose of bodies; Playa de Gulpiyuri – a flooded sinkhole with an inland beach located near Llanes, Spain
'Kola Superdeep') is a 2020 Russian horror film directed by Arseny Syuhin, [1] [2] [3] based on the real-life Kola Superdeep Borehole. The film focuses on a group of researchers and soldiers who investigate the mystery surrounding reports of a disease outbreak at a secret underground research facility in 1984 Russia.
"They made magic happen," Lang said. Up to that point, people had only drilled into this type of rock to a depth of about 200 meters (0.12 miles), Lang said. ... It's not the deepest hole ever ...
That’s 480 feet deeper than the previous record holder, the Sansha Yongle Blue Hole, aka the Dragon Hole, in the South China Sea, which measures 990 feet to the bottom.
The yield decreased to about 2 carats (0.40 g) per tonne and the production rate slowed to 2,000,000 carats (400 kg; 880 lb) per year near the pit bottom. The largest diamond of the mine was found on 23 December 1980; it weighed 342.5 carats (68.50 g) and was named " 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union " ( Russian : XXVI ...