After recently reading an online article from Popular Mechanics about Autopia Ampere, I picked up a copy of the magazine at the airport this week.
In it I learned that there is a 370-some-mile-long ice highway in Canada's Northwest Territory, built over frozen lakes each winter to service the diamond mines. I learned that Canada's diamonds were discovered in 1991 and that they are now the world's third largest diamond supplier.
You can read the whole article and watch a music video by a guy who works the road.
Posted by Tracy Rolling at January 29, 2007 11:55 PMVery cool music video. Chilling, even.
Posted by: N-n-n-n-ni-ini at January 30, 2007 09:36 AMInteresting. BTW, BLDBLOG on the world's biggest diamond mine led me indirectly to The Diamond Invention, which argues diamonds are a century-long monopoly marketing scam by De Beers & Co.
Posted by: Kai Carver at January 30, 2007 09:06 PM