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. Bob Frazier on July 29, 2021 at 11:12 pm

    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.

  2. SLG on July 29, 2021 at 11:13 pm

    It’s 2020, did you get the permits?

  3. Ajju Ratre on July 29, 2021 at 11:14 pm

    I want to study in your country. Coal mines

  4. r0dent on July 29, 2021 at 11:14 pm

    Hope they got their permits now

  5. Red Light on July 29, 2021 at 11:14 pm

    End Fracking ! Save earth 🌍

  6. Live Action on July 29, 2021 at 11:15 pm

    They need to stop digging.

  7. Slipknot Slayer on July 29, 2021 at 11:18 pm

    It is 2020 right now

  8. Ethan Charles on July 29, 2021 at 11:18 pm

    They prop stopped digging cuz they hit bedrock. Gg

  9. will woods on July 29, 2021 at 11:19 pm

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

  10. SomeoneNotFound on July 29, 2021 at 11:21 pm

    I’m always scared of this elevators.

  11. Mickanosh on July 29, 2021 at 11:22 pm

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

  12. Mick King on July 29, 2021 at 11:22 pm

    How did you,s know it was there,you dont usually do test holes that deep.Being that deep the sats wouldnt have picked it up surely.

  13. Quantum Droid on July 29, 2021 at 11:24 pm

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

  14. charles kaleyo on July 29, 2021 at 11:27 pm

    Interesting stuff πŸ’ͺ

  15. mining vids on July 29, 2021 at 11:28 pm

    Shrinkage stoping

  16. Wild West on July 29, 2021 at 11:28 pm

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

  17. Leon Kellerhuis on July 29, 2021 at 11:29 pm

    Dig baby dig

  18. Llo 255 on July 29, 2021 at 11:30 pm

    2020? How is it working out?

  19. Bhuda Lepadima on July 29, 2021 at 11:30 pm

    And women want equality πŸ€¦β€β™‚οΈ

  20. Adam Esreb on July 29, 2021 at 11:31 pm

    Yeeeeeeeeet this is for school

  21. Andrew Tovar on July 29, 2021 at 11:32 pm

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

  22. Farming team on July 29, 2021 at 11:36 pm

    Is 2020

  23. T. Rose on July 29, 2021 at 11:36 pm

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

  24. Brown Sugar on July 29, 2021 at 11:38 pm

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

  25. Ernest Clements on July 29, 2021 at 11:39 pm

    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!

  26. Pwnanite on July 29, 2021 at 11:43 pm

    Its 2021, wheres the follow up.

  27. Joe Bampton on July 29, 2021 at 11:43 pm

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

  28. JohnnyIbbs on July 29, 2021 at 11:44 pm

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

  29. Aaron Wilcox on July 29, 2021 at 11:45 pm

    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

  30. Vaccinium augustifolium on July 29, 2021 at 11:47 pm

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

  31. Colton Blumhagen on July 29, 2021 at 11:50 pm

    1:41 Who would drink that red water?

  32. Andy Anderson on July 29, 2021 at 11:51 pm

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

  33. A Ww on July 29, 2021 at 11:51 pm

    Wow

  34. Ernest Clements on July 29, 2021 at 11:54 pm

    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?

  35. lemniscate on July 29, 2021 at 11:55 pm

    2020 and the progress is slow

  36. bombchomsky on July 29, 2021 at 11:57 pm

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

  37. Gabriel Wooten on July 29, 2021 at 11:57 pm

    who esle here for class

  38. John Schaeffer on July 29, 2021 at 11:58 pm

    WHAT
    IS A FOOT,,,,

    YOUR FOOT,, OR MINE,,,,,

  39. Sakshi Das on July 30, 2021 at 12:00 am

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

  40. Nate Griepentrog on July 30, 2021 at 12:00 am

    Dude what shaders do you have on?

  41. Richard Cowley on July 30, 2021 at 12:01 am

    Calcified Iron Pyrites

  42. NAEC Nanjing Auto Electric Co., Ltd. on July 30, 2021 at 12:02 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?

  43. GoHazard on July 30, 2021 at 12:04 am

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

  44. Star666 Lane on July 30, 2021 at 12:05 am

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

  45. l'annu on July 30, 2021 at 12:07 am

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

  46. Mad Mike on July 30, 2021 at 12:08 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

  47. Eric Simonson on July 30, 2021 at 12:08 am

    COOL

  48. jonny moka on July 30, 2021 at 12:09 am

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

  49. 1956roadtrip dave on July 30, 2021 at 12:10 am

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

  50. Joey Gruszkowski on July 30, 2021 at 12:10 am

    Well its 2020 did they get the permit

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