how would you feel being only 220 miles from the arctic circle?
i don't know. i could ask my dad. thats where he is right now. he is 300 miles northeast of yellowknife, at one of the diamond mines up there. he's been there for a little over a week now, and i just finlly got the time to sit down and actually find some information on the place. it's crazy. in july they get 24 hours of sun light, and in december then get 2 hours, or a little more, but not much more. and the temperature ranges from +10 to -40. yikes. snow all year round, and from january to april, the mines use an iceroad. it's insane. the place he's at only allows them to work 2 weeks at a time, and then they give him 2 weeks off. which is nice. and they pay is nice too i hear! it's a fly in, and fly out only. kind of like a private jet?? lol. the mine he's working at is on an island, in the middle of a huge lake, not the ocean, a lake! it's crazy!
if your interested here is a link to some more information. http://www.infomine.com/minesite/minesite.asp?site=diavik
if you ask me, it's a little too cold up there for me, although it would be amazing to see something like that. and i miss my daddy.
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that sounds crazy!! Matt Nielsen was working up north in the diamond mines too but not that far north i don't think
my dad used to work out of town alot too, way up in the NWT and Yukon...it sucked when he was away too
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