Udachnaya pipe

Udachnaya pipe

Udachnaya pipe ( _ru. трубка Удачная, literally "lucky pipe") is a diamond deposit in the Daldyn-Alakit kimberlite field in Sakha Republic, Russia.cite web| url =http://webmineral.com/data/Amakinite.shtml | title = Amakinite Mineral Data | accessdate = 2006-12-31| last = Barthelmy |first = David ] It is an open-pit mine,cite web| url = http://eng.alrosa.ru/news/detail.php?ID=3818| title = Meeting of ALROSA Supervisory Board| accessdate = 2006-12-31| date = 2004-05-24 | publisher = Alrosa] and is located just outside the Arctic circle at coord|66|26|N|112|19|E|.cite web| url = http://www.mojgorod.ru/r_saha/udachnyj/| work=Moi gorod|title = Udachny town, Yakutia, established by Udachnaya Pipe in 1968|language=Russian|accessdate = 2006-12-31] Udachnaya was discovered on June 15, 1955, just two days after the discovery of the diamond pipe Mir by Soviet geologist Vladimir Shchukin and his team.cite book |last= |first=М. Владимиров|authorlink= |coauthors=Р.М. Лобацкая , Н.В.Воронцова, В.М.Усачев|title=МИРОВОЙ РЫНОК ЮВЕЛИРНЫХ КАМНЕЙ
url=http://www.istu.edu/faculty/geology/chairs/gem/rab8.doc |format= |accessdate=2006-12-31 |year=2006 |month= |publisher=IrGTU|location=Irkutsk |language=Russian |isbn= |oclc= |doi= |id= |pages=p. 107] It is more than 600 metres deep.

As of|2004, Udachnaya pipe is controlled by Russian diamond company Alrosa, which plans to halt open-pit mining in favor of underground mining in 2010.

See also

* Volcanic pipe

References

External links

* [http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=66.435421,112.314606&spn=.127002,.449444&t=k&hl=en Satellite photo of the Udachnaya pipe]
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