World S Deepest Granite Pit

After traveling for days across the country they finally arrive at the the worlds deepest pit they climb the steps to the tower and look over the guard rail down into the worlds biggest pit and a funny thing happens.

World s deepest granite pit.

There are larger pit quarries throughout the world but no larger open face quarries. The sudbury neutrino observatory the world s deepest physics laboratory 6 800. Visit our observation deck where you can see nearly all the activities and are close enough to be plenty startled when we set off an explosion which occurs several times each day. Illustration via wikimedia commons.

Mount airy nicknamed the granite city is home to the largest open face granite quarry in the world. One half mile deep and 2 5 miles wide if it were a stadium it could seat nine million people. Kennecott digs approximately 250 000 tons of rock out of the pit every day so this is one attraction that gets bigger and better every time you visit. They prepared to look into the darkness of an abyss and unexpectedly the magnificence of the universe appeared.

It was dug between 1858 and 1862 and its depth is 1 285 ft 392 m. That makes it much longer than the uk s highest mountain ben nevis which stands at 4 409 feet. The bingham canyon mine more commonly known as kennecott copper mine among locals is an open pit mining operation extracting a large porphyry copper deposit southwest of salt lake city utah in the oquirrh mountains. Located in a bay west of clarence town on the bahamas long island its visible diameter.

The kola borehole is 40 230 feet deep making it the deepest man made point on earth.