Biggest Man Made Hole

Tweet

The Biggest man made hole in the world is that of the Kimberley Diamond mine in South Africa. On the tour with the NewYorker, after they return from the Kruger National Park, which i have just submitted a post on, we will be heading down to Cape Town and on route visiting some Great sites for S to see for himself. "Kimberley Mine, an open-pit mine in South Africa is one of the world's deepest man-man holes. This Big Hole is 705 feet deep and nearly circular. Mined from 1871 to 1914, up to 50,000 miners dug this hole with shovels and picks, yielding 6,000 pounds of diamonds." The place is quite extraordinary with a little shanty town alongside the diggings and a overhanging bridge which lets you feel the depth of the mine, One cannot imagine how BIG and Deep this Hole is without seeing it for oneself. We will be having breakfast in Kimberley and then venturing off down to the plains of Northern Cape to see the Largest Telescope in the Southern Hemisphere - SALT Come enjoy the ride with me . . . we are doing a short virtual travel of South Africa