Today in Entrepreneurial History: June 13
On this day in 1955 the Mir Mine, first diamond mine in the USSR, was discovered. The honor of thus pleasing cranky old Stalin went to Yuri Khabardin, Ekaterina Elagina, and Viktor Avdeenko, who, while on an expedition, noticed that the ground under their feet contained kimberlite, a volcanic rock that proliferates in diamond-rich South […]
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