Digging for Diamonds 24/7 Under Frozen Snap Lake
Sep 19, 2012· Snap Lake''s kimberlite is a 9-foot-thick, 2.5-by-1.6-mile seam angling slightly downward. It''s also about 200 feet under a lake that''s frozen most of the year. So all of Snap Lake''s mining is underground — a cold, wet, black world of rising and falling tunnels constantly leaking water from the lake .