The deepest hand-dug well in the world, in Woodingdean, East Sussex, England. Advertisement It was dug between 1858 and 1862, and its depth is 1,285 ft (392 m).

The quarry itself is the world's largest deep-hole dimension granite quarry, and though 600 feet of its depths, approximately half is under the green water.

Thornton Quarry is one of the largest aggregate quarries in the world, located in Thornton, Illinois just south of Chicago.The quarry is 1.5 miles (2.5 km) long, 0.5 miles (1 km) wide, and 450 feet (137.16 m) deep at its deepest point. Gallagher Asphalt Corporation has been operating on the grounds of the quarry …

Swimming wild in one of the deepest man made holes in Europe. Rubislaw Quarry is around 500ft deep, 400ft wide and 750ft long, so has to be incontention for...

Mining-technology profiles the world's top ten deepest open pit mines currently active. Share Article. Bingham Canyon. Bingham Canyon mine located south-west of Salt Lake City, Utah, US, is the deepest open pit mine in the world. The Bingham Canyon pit is more than 1.2km deep and approximately four kilometres wide.

Mount Airy, nicknamed "The Granite City," is home to the largest open face granite quarry in the world. There are larger pit quarries throughout the world but no larger open-face quarries. 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.

With its incredible 1.2 km to the bottom, Bingham Canyon is the world's deepest open pit. The open pit was a little shallower in 2013 when 65-70 million cubic meters of soil and stone detached from one side of the open pit and slid down to the bottom - the largest non-volcanic landslide in North America's history.

Anyone else notice the "World's Deepest Pit" as the quarry? I happened to have just watched the new Netflix original movie "The Fundamentals of Caring" (Paul Rudd and Selena Gomez, great movie definitely recommend) the day before I started watching Stranger Things and noticed that the world's deepest pit attraction from the movie was the same ...

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.The mine is the largest man-made excavation, and deepest open-pit mine in the world, which is considered to have produced more copper than any other mine in history – more ...

Kidd Mine (Ontario, Canada) – the world's deepest copper-zinc mine, extending to 2,733 m below the sea. This is not the deepest mine in the world; The quarry is in the north, it is closest to the center of the earth from all existing mines. Its history begins in 1964, since this open quarry …

Delabole Quarry was once the deepest man-made pit in the world, but this is no longer the case due to massive open cast mines and quarries in America and Australia. The quarry was connected to a narrow gauge railway worked by steam and diesel locomotives to move the slate: this is thought to have begun before 1834 and continued in use until ...

According to some, this is the entrance to hell. This is the Kola Superdeep Borehole, the deepest manmade hole on Earth and deepest artificial point on Earth. The 40,230ft-deep (12.2km ...

At more than 650 feet deep, Dean's Blue Hole is the world's deepest sinkhole with an entrance below water. Located in a bay west of Clarence Town on …

deepest quarry in the world. Thornton Quarry is one of the largest aggregate quarries in the world located in Thornton Illinois just south of quarry is 15 miles 25 km long 05 miles 1 km wide and 450 feet 13716 m deep at its deepest point Gallagher Asphalt Corporation has been operating on the grounds of the quarry since 1928.

South Deep Gold Mine. The South Deep gold mine, owned and operated by Gold Fields, is the seventh deepest mine in the world. The South African gold mine extends up to 2,998m below the surface. Covering an area of 4,268ha, the mine is located 45km south-west of Johannesburg.