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. Brown Sugar on August 1, 2021 at 12:14 am

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

  2. jonny moka on August 1, 2021 at 12:15 am

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

  3. Ethan Charles on August 1, 2021 at 12:20 am

    They prop stopped digging cuz they hit bedrock. Gg

  4. l'annu on August 1, 2021 at 12:21 am

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

  5. SomeoneNotFound on August 1, 2021 at 12:22 am

    I’m always scared of this elevators.

  6. Llo 255 on August 1, 2021 at 12:24 am

    2020? How is it working out?

  7. John Schaeffer on August 1, 2021 at 12:26 am

    WHAT
    IS A FOOT,,,,

    YOUR FOOT,, OR MINE,,,,,

  8. Andy Anderson on August 1, 2021 at 12:26 am

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

  9. Pwnanite on August 1, 2021 at 12:28 am

    Its 2021, wheres the follow up.

  10. r0dent on August 1, 2021 at 12:28 am

    Hope they got their permits now

  11. Mick King on August 1, 2021 at 12:29 am

    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.

  12. Red Light on August 1, 2021 at 12:29 am

    End Fracking ! Save earth 🌍

  13. Quantum Droid on August 1, 2021 at 12:31 am

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

  14. Gabriel Wooten on August 1, 2021 at 12:33 am

    who esle here for class

  15. Eric Simonson on August 1, 2021 at 12:33 am

    COOL

  16. Farming team on August 1, 2021 at 12:34 am

    Is 2020

  17. Star666 Lane on August 1, 2021 at 12:34 am

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

  18. Leon Kellerhuis on August 1, 2021 at 12:34 am

    Dig baby dig

  19. Aaron Wilcox on August 1, 2021 at 12:36 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

  20. Joe Bampton on August 1, 2021 at 12:36 am

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

  21. Nate Griepentrog on August 1, 2021 at 12:40 am

    Dude what shaders do you have on?

  22. SLG on August 1, 2021 at 12:42 am

    It’s 2020, did you get the permits?

  23. A Ww on August 1, 2021 at 12:42 am

    Wow

  24. Adam Esreb on August 1, 2021 at 12:43 am

    Yeeeeeeeeet this is for school

  25. NAEC Nanjing Auto Electric Co., Ltd. on August 1, 2021 at 12:46 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?

  26. 1956roadtrip dave on August 1, 2021 at 12:46 am

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

  27. bombchomsky on August 1, 2021 at 12:47 am

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

  28. Mad Mike on August 1, 2021 at 12:48 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

  29. mining vids on August 1, 2021 at 12:48 am

    Shrinkage stoping

  30. JohnnyIbbs on August 1, 2021 at 12:48 am

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

  31. Ernest Clements on August 1, 2021 at 12:49 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?

  32. Colton Blumhagen on August 1, 2021 at 12:51 am

    1:41 Who would drink that red water?

  33. Bob Frazier on August 1, 2021 at 12:53 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.

  34. lemniscate on August 1, 2021 at 12:54 am

    2020 and the progress is slow

  35. GoHazard on August 1, 2021 at 12:54 am

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

  36. T. Rose on August 1, 2021 at 12:56 am

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

  37. Andrew Tovar on August 1, 2021 at 12:56 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 🧐

  38. Ernest Clements on August 1, 2021 at 12:59 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!

  39. charles kaleyo on August 1, 2021 at 1:01 am

    Interesting stuff πŸ’ͺ

  40. Wild West on August 1, 2021 at 1:02 am

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

  41. Vaccinium augustifolium on August 1, 2021 at 1:03 am

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

  42. Bhuda Lepadima on August 1, 2021 at 1:03 am

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

  43. Sakshi Das on August 1, 2021 at 1:04 am

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

  44. Joey Gruszkowski on August 1, 2021 at 1:04 am

    Well its 2020 did they get the permit

  45. Mickanosh on August 1, 2021 at 1:04 am

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

  46. Richard Cowley on August 1, 2021 at 1:04 am

    Calcified Iron Pyrites

  47. will woods on August 1, 2021 at 1:05 am

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

  48. Slipknot Slayer on August 1, 2021 at 1:07 am

    It is 2020 right now

  49. Live Action on August 1, 2021 at 1:08 am

    They need to stop digging.

  50. Ajju Ratre on August 1, 2021 at 1:11 am

    I want to study in your country. Coal mines

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