The trick now is to machine the top of the pipe so that the remaining 1400 or so feet can be gripped or to use other tactics to grab hold of it and pull it up and out of the hole so that drilling can proceed.

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It was an 83.5-carat diamond and it gave birth to one of the world's most powerful multinationals, De Beers, named for Afrikaner brothers who owned a farm on top of a diamond pipe.

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And you can either stack it on top of each other high, or you can just grow the single pipe vertically, and plants will naturally sprout right out of that.

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