A sinkhole near one of the mines in Russia’s Ural Mountains has grown in size at least fivefold since it was first reported last November; the huge abyss keeps swallowing up nearby summer cottages and shows no signs that it will stop getting bigger. A huge sinkhole, in the very middle of a seasonal cottage community and near Solikamsk-2, a mine operated by Russia’s biggest potash fertilizer producer UralkalI, keeps growing in size. It is gradually widening, and swallowing in more nearby holiday homes as the earth keeps collapsing

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