Mining.com recounts some of the interesting projects of world proportions. For example, there is a lot more to mining than the things that occasionally go wrong. Though the media focus on the disasters, every day in the industry incredible things are done that never get any press time. The ways humans have found to get the things we need out of the ground are simply staggering. Let us take a look at some of the more mind boggling things humans have done over the years in our quest for resources. Humans have combined insane feats of engineering brilliance with fascinating research projects. Preposterous Pipelines - In Russia ...a pipeline which stretches all the way from the eastern reaches of Ukraine to the western tip of Germany for a total of around 4,000 km (2,300 miles) Gargantuan Gold Mines ...TauTona is a gold mine in South Africa.... the deepest mining operations on the planet at about 4 km (2.3 miles) deep with ambient temperatures of around 60 degrees celsius. One Heroic Hole ... Kola Superdeep Borehole was a Soviet Project drilling to reach the Moho, encountered temperatures of 180 degrees celcius. The extreme conditions were terminal, and never reached its goal of 15,000 meters deep (8.6 miles). However, did reach a total depth of 12.2 kms (7 miles). Towing Tonnage ...The Troll A oil and gas platform remains the tallest and heaviest object ever towed by man by sea, weighs more than 600,000 tons, and had to be towed all the way from Norway to its place of operation in the North Sea. Can We Blow up a Natural Gas Well?...1971 a group of Soviet engineers decided it would be a good idea to set an enormous shallow natural gas well on fire with a large explosion. The resultant burn off has continued for forty years. Reason? Deepwater Drilling ... Perdido operates in the Gulf of Mexico in deeper water than any other platform. How deep? 2,500 meters (1.4 miles). It is a floating platform, Perdido is almost as tall as the Eiffel tower.
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