Inside the Resolution Copper Mine, 1.3 Miles Underground

Inside the Resolution Copper Mine, 1.3 Miles Underground

Mar. 14 — There are deeper mines in North America than the Resolution mine but none with a single shaft this long. It is a 6,943 foot concrete barrel, 30 feet in diameter bored into the mountain of Arizona and took six years to dig. Bloomberg’s Matt Philips journeys toward the center of the earth to check out this engineering marvel. (video by Adam Wolffbrandt)

50 Comments

  1. 1956roadtrip dave on July 2, 2021 at 9:42 am

    This was part of the native Americans land. Arizona ignored the native Americans rights.

  2. charles kaleyo on July 2, 2021 at 9:44 am

    Interesting stuff πŸ’ͺ

  3. jonny moka on July 2, 2021 at 9:45 am

    They said looking from the top you cannot tell the copper is below. Bullshit, you can see the sparking minerals from oak flat!

  4. Joe Bampton on July 2, 2021 at 9:46 am

    INCO Creighton Mine in Sudbury is 7280′ straight down. Cage is double deck and takes 60 men a trip.

  5. lemniscate on July 2, 2021 at 9:46 am

    2020 and the progress is slow

  6. Live Action on July 2, 2021 at 9:49 am

    They need to stop digging.

  7. Nathan Mace on July 2, 2021 at 9:49 am

    So we have a 6 billion dollar scratch off ticket. What if some invents something better than copper? Like the power grid is doing with coal.

  8. Colton Blumhagen on July 2, 2021 at 9:51 am

    1:41 Who would drink that red water?

  9. Aaron Wilcox on July 2, 2021 at 9:52 am

    It might be a safe method of mining but it also might not be. Theres phenominon called rock bursts that can occur under active fault zones that are associated with fault and orebodies and they could start occuring being in that deeo or in an active geologic area. Its not the top or "back" one need worry about but rather thrust or energy released by fault slippage and the ribs and floor heave from immense pressure and release of energy. It may or may not happen here, im not in the know about their geology here

  10. Nate Griepentrog on July 2, 2021 at 9:52 am

    Dude what shaders do you have on?

  11. Pwnanite on July 2, 2021 at 9:53 am

    Its 2021, wheres the follow up.

  12. Vaccinium augustifolium on July 2, 2021 at 9:53 am

    6G $ Capex? Damn there is a shitload of ressource to justify such a price 😳

  13. Slipknot Slayer on July 2, 2021 at 9:55 am

    It is 2020 right now

  14. Sakshi Das on July 2, 2021 at 9:55 am

    Who’s watching this now saying, "Theres covid"

  15. GoHazard on July 2, 2021 at 9:56 am

    It is 2021 now, hope they got started by now.

  16. will woods on July 2, 2021 at 9:56 am

    Everyone needs copper, duh. Better for America that we mine for ourselves, less reliant on other countries. nuff said. Terry Woods

  17. Quantum Droid on July 2, 2021 at 9:57 am

    so its 2020….did they started with the copper? or just still undermining πŸ˜€

  18. Ajju Ratre on July 2, 2021 at 9:58 am

    I want to study in your country. Coal mines

  19. Gabriel Wooten on July 2, 2021 at 10:00 am

    who esle here for class

  20. suikazi on July 2, 2021 at 10:01 am

    Hope they got their permits now

  21. Llo 255 on July 2, 2021 at 10:02 am

    2020? How is it working out?

  22. Mad Mike on July 2, 2021 at 10:02 am

    I work in a coal mine #8 seam…best job in the world. Working underground is great. With any job some days are worse than others but there’s been a lot of Sundays I got double time ($75 hr) for an hour or 2 of work then sleep the rest of the shift…lol. That doesn’t happen at many other jobs. If I lose this job I don’t know if I could ever work at a normal job…lol

  23. T. Rose on July 2, 2021 at 10:02 am

    They must have 10 1000 hp fans to get air moving.

  24. Brown Sugar on July 2, 2021 at 10:02 am

    Why do I feel we are going to run out of earth😬

  25. Wild West on July 2, 2021 at 10:05 am

    They get to it. Whoops we were wrong no copper actually there.

  26. Eric Simonson on July 2, 2021 at 10:06 am

    COOL

  27. JohnnyIbbs on July 2, 2021 at 10:06 am

    If you have 6 billion to spend why is he trying to get rich πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ

  28. Ernest Clements on July 2, 2021 at 10:06 am

    Rio Tinto, the British mining consortium with the worst environmental record on earth, their mines at Valle D Or Quebec, make it the most polluted place, on the planet!

  29. A Ww on July 2, 2021 at 10:09 am

    Wow

  30. Farming team on July 2, 2021 at 10:10 am

    Is 2020

  31. SLG on July 2, 2021 at 10:10 am

    It’s 2020, did you get the permits?

  32. Black Beak on July 2, 2021 at 10:12 am

    All I hear is the descendants of European colonizing settlers talking about how they are going to continue stealing and taking from stolen land 🧐

  33. Joey Gruszkowski on July 2, 2021 at 10:12 am

    Well its 2020 did they get the permit

  34. Leon Kellerhuis on July 2, 2021 at 10:12 am

    Dig baby dig

  35. bombchomsky on July 2, 2021 at 10:15 am

    I’ve been doing this in Dorf Fortress for years?

  36. mining vids on July 2, 2021 at 10:16 am

    Shrinkage stoping

  37. SomeoneNotFound on July 2, 2021 at 10:17 am

    I’m always scared of this elevators.

  38. Richard Cowley on July 2, 2021 at 10:19 am

    Calcified Iron Pyrites

  39. Red Light on July 2, 2021 at 10:19 am

    End Fracking ! Save earth 🌍

  40. l'annu on July 2, 2021 at 10:23 am

    I wanted to be a miner but after seeing that lift I’m terrified already

  41. Adam Esreb on July 2, 2021 at 10:24 am

    Yeeeeeeeeet this is for school

  42. Mickanosh on July 2, 2021 at 10:26 am

    4:40 little did they know something bad was going to happen to the whole world

  43. Ethan Charles on July 2, 2021 at 10:28 am

    They prop stopped digging cuz they hit bedrock. Gg

  44. Star666 Lane on July 2, 2021 at 10:29 am

    This might be irrelevant but on minecraft I have a lot of gold and diamonds

  45. Ernest Clements on July 2, 2021 at 10:30 am

    There’s a lot of cinnabar ( mercury ore) in Arizona, some of which is so concentrated that the heat of one’s hand can sweat the highly toxic chemical from the rock, ( which is one reason for staying out of old mines, and away from old tailings piles) how much of that is present in the rock of this operation, and just how are they planning to keep it from leaching into the environment? What abatement plans do they have?

  46. Andy Anderson on July 2, 2021 at 10:30 am

    They sunk $6 billion never thinking that they could get $4.77 a pound for copper. Copper prices have gone thru the roof.

  47. john cuervo on July 2, 2021 at 10:31 am

    Updates? Did the dick pay off? Captions at 4:52

  48. NAEC Nanjing Auto Electric Co., Ltd. on July 2, 2021 at 10:32 am

    There are some pipes inside the copper mine,with yellow/blac color, what are those pipes used for? And what is the material of the pipes?

  49. John Schaeffer on July 2, 2021 at 10:33 am

    WHAT
    IS A FOOT,,,,

    YOUR FOOT,, OR MINE,,,,,

  50. Bob Frazier on July 2, 2021 at 10:42 am

    Biden administration has now (2021) put a hold on the federal permits. When Hunter Biden is hired onto the Rio Tinto board then all may proceed. Hold some back for the "big guy" too.

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