Mir

Russia · Open pit + underground

Opened: 1957
Region: Sakha (Yakutia)
Status: Closed
Country: Russia
Type: Open pit + underground
Latitude: 62.53
Longitude: 113.99

Notes

A 525 m deep, 1.2 km wide hole in the permafrost, so large the airspace above it was closed to helicopters; the underground mine that succeeded it flooded in 2017.

Commodities

Carbon

Referenced by

element

Carbon

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From the Mines database in Notion, last edited 2026-08-16. This page is the row, rendered by the build; nothing on it is written by hand.