Fully fiery diamonds on a snowy Urals

Do you think that diamonds are looking negros in Africa and the harsh polar geologists in Yakutia? This is true, but even diamonds mined in the Urals - a 1% of Russian diamond production. Unlike the famous Yakut kimberlite diamond mining is conducted from placer deposits. Diamonds there is less, but more than suitable for the production of diamonds.

12 photos via mmet

1. It looks like Russia. Guess what machines can be found on this road?





2. That's right, only lesovozku. Almazovozki disguised ZIL truck "Bread", passing is very rare. A timber break very often.



3. locks and prohibited areas the situation is much more pleasant than in Moscow. For example, a high-voltage substation protects only the rural sample valve toilet in 1830.



4. But it is time to get acquainted with the diamond-mining dredge. Draga - this is such a huge fool of which sticks out the front Bucket "tape", which bites into the ground and absorbs it into itself. Further in the bowels of this giant with slave Drood blacks and Tajiks separates flies from cutlets. Cutlets sent for cutting and flies are released on the holy Russian land through a huge pipe sticking out of the tail of the dredge.



5. All this construction has yet to swim. So we believe it, workers hung around buoys.



6. Unfortunately, even in the winter dredge and sleeps, but there are people. Including the guard, who was not allowed inside and genuinely surprised - what to watch? See transparent stones, wrapped in newspaper Trud and extracted from greasy pockets as we had no chance.



7. had to limit visual inspection. Number of drag two pieces in the Urals in the Perm region and half in the Sverdlovsk region.



8. By the way, in the Urals, has been found the first Russian diamond and in 1940 organized the first diamond industry. And in the Urals no dope on how to "Urals" or "Ural". I shoutout to Ukraine!



9. Some local residents against the diamond and believe that these dredges destroy the scenic landscapes of the Urals. From the beautiful river doing something terrible, the place of beautiful beaches and trees comes perelopachennaya earth and clay.



10. Locals.



11. In the background, the second dredge on a background of the village of Tulum.



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