Top 10 amazing holes photos in the world
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1. Darvaza Gas Crater-Turkmenistan(The Door to Hell):
In the heart of the Karakum desert of Turkmenistan the Darvaza Gas Crater or The Burning Gates give off a glow that can be seen from miles away during the dark night.
(Image credit:JohnBradley)
2.Kimberley Diamond Mine-South Africa:
The Kimberley Diamond Mine (also known as the Big Hole) holds the (disputed) title of being the largest hand-dug hole in the world. From 1866 to 1914 50,000 miners dug the hole with picks and shovels, yielding 2,722 kg of diamonds.
Source photos: Wikipedia
3. Monticello Dam-California:
The Monticello Dam is a dam in Napa County, California, United States most noted for its large circular spillway with a rate of 48,400 cubic feet per second.
4 Bingham Canyon Mine-Utah
The Bingham Canyon Mine is a copper mine in the Oquirrh mountains, Utah. The mine is 0.75 mile (1.2 km) deep, 2.5 miles (4 km) wide. It is the world’s largest manmade excavation.(Source: CRIENGLISH.com/china.org.cn)
Source: Wikipedia
5. Great Blue Hole-Belize
The Great Blue Hole is an underwater sinkhole off the coast of Belize. The hole is 1,000 feet across and 400 feet deep. It was formed as a limestone cave during the last iceage.
Image via Neatorama
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6. Mirny Diamond Mine-Siberia:
The Mirny Diamond Mine is 525m deep and has a diameter of 1200m. It was the first, and one of the largest, diamond Pipes in the USSR. It is now abandoned. While it was still operational, it would take two hours for trucks to drive from the top to the bottom of the mine.
Image source: Wikimapia
7. Diavik Mine-Canada
The Diavik Mine is a mine in the Northwest territories of Canada. The mine (opened in 2003) produces 8 million carats or about 1,600 kg (3,500 lb) of diamonds every year.
Image source: Xinhuanet
Image source: Wikipedia
8 Sinkhole-Guatemala:
On February 26, 2007, a 300 foot deep sinkhole swallowed a dozen homes in Guatemala. The sinkhole was caused by rains and an underground sewage flow.
Image source: Nationalgeographic
9. Udachnaya Pipe-Russia:
The Udachnaya Pipe is a diamond mine in Russia. The owners of the mine plan to cease its operations in 2010 – in favor of underground mining. The mine was discovered in 1955 and is over 600 meters deep.
Image source: Wikipedia
10. Chuquicamata-Chile
Chuquicamata is an open pit copper mine in Chile. It is the mine with the largest total production of copper in the world – though it is not the largest copper mine. The mine is over 850 meters deep.
Image source: Wikipedia
In your opinion, what is the strangest hole in the world?
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March 8th, 2009 at 1:27 am
My wife has the strangest hole in the world.
March 8th, 2009 at 1:28 am
WoW…awesome..just awesome
March 8th, 2009 at 1:38 am
All neat stuff, but I want to know how you remedy a 300+ ft. sinkhole in the middle of a city? Can you fill it in with tons and tons and tons of dirt and rock? How do you fill it in without getting close to the unstable edges? Holes are fascinating.
March 8th, 2009 at 1:40 am
I think the Darvaza Gas Crater is pretty strange. I would love to see it for myself.
March 8th, 2009 at 1:58 am
These holes are impressive but I’d have to go with Pamela Anderson’s coucher.
March 8th, 2009 at 1:59 am
Wow. These are some incredible photos. Makes you feel really little.
March 8th, 2009 at 2:14 am
the monticello dam creeps me out. we learned about the copper mine in utah in one of my classes, and it’s actually inactive right now because it costs more to mine the copper than the copper is worth.
March 8th, 2009 at 2:20 am
Interesting page, but the weirdest hole is not mentioned… Mel’s hole.
March 8th, 2009 at 2:24 am
These are amazing pictures. The Guatemala is totally weird, and the Belize one kind of freaks me out…
March 8th, 2009 at 3:03 am
And they call the oil sands in Alberta, Canada a mess.
March 8th, 2009 at 6:06 am
These are some great photos. I’d love to visit these places someday.
March 8th, 2009 at 6:47 am
My girlfriend’s hole is the scariest 0_o
March 8th, 2009 at 11:13 am
to tom: lol.. i bet she does
April 1st, 2009 at 1:21 am
A hole’s only natural enemy is the pile.
April 4th, 2009 at 4:03 am
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April 5th, 2009 at 9:59 am
Mirny Diamond Mine-Siberia — looks really dangerous, someone could fall into that — they should fill in that sucker
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“The mine was discovered in 1955 and is over 600 meters deep.”
Guess aliens dug it, and was just discovered by humans in 1955
April 5th, 2009 at 10:04 am
me.
April 5th, 2009 at 10:14 am
What, no love for the Mystery Hole?
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/10971
April 5th, 2009 at 10:32 am
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April 5th, 2009 at 10:34 am
There’s a fairly impressive hole just outside of Montreal, Canada. I don’t live there so I don’t know much about it, I have only seen it from an airplane. What’s impressive is that it is near perfectly square and about as deep as one side. I’m thinking it might be a quarry of some kind. Maybe a cubic block or so.
April 5th, 2009 at 11:46 am
What about the copper mine on Bougainville? 3rd biggest, so I’m told.
April 5th, 2009 at 1:11 pm
GOATSE !!!!
April 5th, 2009 at 1:23 pm
Boy, what’s this DIRT doin’ in mah HOLE?
April 5th, 2009 at 1:45 pm
I’d suggest the Berezniki sinkhole: 59o23′18”N, 56o46′07”E. Enjoy Panoramio photos on Google Earth!
April 5th, 2009 at 2:42 pm
WOW JIMM! IMA GET ON THE HIGH DIVE AND POUNCE IIN TO ONE OF THOSE HOLES ! NEW LIFE GOAL !!!LOL:p
April 5th, 2009 at 5:21 pm
Detroit.
It is the only hole above ground.
April 5th, 2009 at 5:29 pm
The Monticello dam merely because it is unexplained.
April 5th, 2009 at 6:43 pm
Your not kidding Tom, your wife does have one of the strangest holes in the world!
April 5th, 2009 at 6:57 pm
You left out the biggest hole. The one located in Washington DC known as the US Capitol Building. It’s occupied by 535 “assHOLES”.
April 5th, 2009 at 7:52 pm
The biggest hole is the 2009 Federal budget.
April 5th, 2009 at 8:03 pm
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April 5th, 2009 at 8:14 pm
Pretty amazing stuff, the 300ft one is just plain scary. I’m curious to know how many/if anyone was hurt in the process.
I can’t imagine how much rock it would take to fill back up…makes you wonder where all of the earth went in the first place
April 5th, 2009 at 11:37 pm
Washington, D.C. is the only planetary-based black hole.
April 6th, 2009 at 1:41 am
Madonna has the strangest hole in the world.
April 6th, 2009 at 1:42 am
Meteor Crater, Arizona.
April 6th, 2009 at 2:16 am
What about the ones in Blackburn, Lancashire?
April 6th, 2009 at 2:31 am
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April 6th, 2009 at 8:17 pm
See the “glory hole” as it’s known for the Owyhee Dam in Eastern Oregon. You can get a better idea since you can see it at both high water and late summer low water conditions. http://tjdmobile.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/file0043.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/7788317@N06/455834557/sizes/m/
April 6th, 2009 at 10:23 pm
The Black Hole of Calcutta or the hole where the rufuge of the world lives like WASHINGTON D.C. U.C. BERKLEY, U.C. SANTA CRUZ, san francisco and especialy the stink hole of HOLLYWEED
April 6th, 2009 at 11:25 pm
Countless gynocologists have been lost to Paris Hilton’s hole.
Stop it before it kills again!
April 7th, 2009 at 1:42 am
[...] but there they are and I find myself gaping (ha) at them. I’d love to visit any of them. Check out the link! Make sure to note that Guatemala sinkhole compared to the Statue of Liberty. [...]
April 7th, 2009 at 9:20 am
You missed a few cool holes – The old copper mine in Butte, MT, that asteroid holeoutside of Winslow AZ, and there is a cool volcano hole in Volcanos NP in Hawaii.
April 7th, 2009 at 11:11 am
Hey remeber CALVIN Q CALCULUS the inventor of the PORTIBLE HOLE
August 18th, 2009 at 3:40 pm
very scaryyyyy:-o
December 13th, 2009 at 6:54 pm
I believe, Monticello Dam-California, In Napa County, is most strangest one. Cooool Man
December 17th, 2009 at 6:40 pm
These are really wonderful picture sitting on my chair still feel not to slip into those wholes. Whoever, has made the wonderful picture really shows that if human beings works hard will achieve many things in life.
Regards,
Mohammad Qasim Stanikzai
January 18th, 2010 at 12:10 pm
these holes are not as big as Courtney loves hole