Sibaysk opencast mine is a Russian copper-zinc pyrite field. It was opened in 1913, and is the second most deep in the world. Its depth is about 500 metres with the diameter of 2 kilometers.
View from the observation point.
A thin stripe on the left is actually a rather wide road.
One can hardly discern the bottom of the open pit.
Observation booth.
Kilometres-long waste rock drops.
Pay attention to the hole in the wall, it is a tunnel a 60-ton truck can go along.
According to the legend the open pit was founded more than 100 years ago by a hunter from a little village Old Sibay while digging out polecat’s hole.
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