Bingham Pit, Utah

"It is 2.5 miles wide and 3/4 mile deep. Looking into it is like looking into space," the Center for Land Use Interpretation suggests. It's Utah's Bingham Canyon Copper Mine, and it just might be "the biggest hole on earth."

[Image 1: CLUI; Image 2: here; Image 3: here].

Also, see Placement's One Hundred Years Towards Hell; as well as BLDGBLOG's World's largest diamond mine.

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

Thats a hole for n00bs. The hole in my wifes hand is way bigger...

July 28, 2006 10:11 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

My girlfriend virginia is bigger.....

March 06, 2007 5:21 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Virginia? She's got a state?

February 18, 2008 12:46 AM  

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