Udachnaya pipe

The Udachnaya pipe (Russian: тру́бка Уда́чная, literally lucky pipe) is a diamond deposit in the Daldyn-Alakit kimberlite field in Sakha Republic, Russia.[1] It is an open-pit mine,[2] and is located just outside the Arctic circle at 66°26′N 112°19′E.[3]

Udachnaya pipe
The Udachnaya pipe
Udachnaya pipe
Location in Russia
Coordinates66°26′N 112°19′E
Production
ProductsDiamonds
Owner
CompanyAlrosa

History

Udachnaya was discovered on 15 June 1955, just two days after the discovery of the diamond pipe Mir by Soviet geologist Vladimir Shchukin and his team.[4] It is about 640 metres (2,100 ft) deep, making it the third deepest open-pit mine in the world (after Bingham Canyon Mine and Chuquicamata).[4]

The nearby settlement of Udachny is named for the deposit.

As of 2010, Udachnaya pipe is controlled by Russian diamond company Alrosa, which planned to halt open-pit mining in favor of underground mining in 2010.[2]

The mine has estimated reserves of 225.8 million carats (45.16 t) of diamonds and an annual production capacity of 10.4 million carats (2.08 t).[5]

gollark: Not as much as it would be if one entity just did *all* economic planning.
gollark: It's not an infrastructure problem, it's a this-is-computationally-very-hard problem, and a horribly-centralizes-power problem, and a bad-incentives-to-be-efficient problem, and a responding-to-local-information problem.
gollark: And in general lots of things can be done better, or *at all*, if you have a giant plant somewhere producing resources for big fractions of the world.
gollark: Some resources (lithium and such are big issues nowadays) only exist in a few places, so you have to ship from there.
gollark: This also doesn't seem practical.

See also

References
  1. Barthelmy, David. "Amakinite Mineral Data". Retrieved 2006-12-31.
  2. "Meeting of ALROSA Supervisory Board". Alrosa. 2004-05-24. Retrieved 2006-12-31.
  3. "Udachny town, Yakutia, established by Udachnaya Pipe in 1968". Moi gorod (in Russian). Retrieved 2006-12-31.
  4. М. Владимиров; Р.М. Лобацкая; Н.В.Воронцова; В.М.Усачев (2006). МИРОВОЙ РЫНОК ЮВЕЛИРНЫХ КАМНЕЙ (in Russian). Irkutsk: IrGTU. p. 107. Archived from the original on 2007-02-25. Retrieved 2006-12-31.
  5. "Diamond deposits in the Sakha Republic". rough-polished.com. 25 June 2012.
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