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. SJL Network on February 19, 2022 at 6:13 am

    awesome video.. love it

  2. Colton Blumhagen on February 19, 2022 at 6:14 am

    1:41 Who would drink that red water?

  3. Vaccinium augustifolium on February 19, 2022 at 6:15 am

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

  4. Jose Ortega on February 19, 2022 at 6:17 am

    Let’s get this mine going!!! You all need copper for your smart phones and smart cars and I need money to feed my family!

  5. Chris McMillen on February 19, 2022 at 6:18 am

    Wonder if this mines working yet

  6. SLG on February 19, 2022 at 6:19 am

    It’s 2020, did you get the permits?

  7. Andy Anderson on February 19, 2022 at 6:22 am

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

  8. will woods on February 19, 2022 at 6:22 am

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

  9. Fusion325 on February 19, 2022 at 6:25 am

    I see what you did there at the end…

  10. Askar Top on February 19, 2022 at 6:26 am

    is it worling now?

  11. Star666 Lane on February 19, 2022 at 6:26 am

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

  12. 1956roadtrip dave on February 19, 2022 at 6:27 am

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

  13. Joe Bampton on February 19, 2022 at 6:27 am

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

  14. Ernest Clements on February 19, 2022 at 6:27 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?

  15. Farming team on February 19, 2022 at 6:28 am

    Is 2020

  16. Ernest Clements on February 19, 2022 at 6:29 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!

  17. T. Rose on February 19, 2022 at 6:30 am

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

  18. Alex Moses on February 19, 2022 at 6:30 am

    magma, not lava

  19. Hilmon stigler on February 19, 2022 at 6:35 am

    Cool beens

  20. GLZY on February 19, 2022 at 6:36 am

    Hope they got their permits now

  21. Live Action on February 19, 2022 at 6:37 am

    They need to stop digging.

  22. Adam Esreb on February 19, 2022 at 6:37 am

    Yeeeeeeeeet this is for school

  23. Disgrutledhobo on February 19, 2022 at 6:40 am

    LOLZ But, Biden cancelled it!

  24. NAEC Nanjing Auto Electric Co., Ltd. on February 19, 2022 at 6:42 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?

  25. The Global Deception on February 19, 2022 at 6:42 am

    You don’t know for a fact there’s molten lava at the center of the earth since no one has been able to drill that deep to find out. That is just a theory.

  26. Aaron Wilcox on February 19, 2022 at 6:43 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

  27. jack weyant on February 19, 2022 at 6:45 am

    4:50 turn on the captions and have a laugh

  28. Thomas Schick on February 19, 2022 at 6:46 am

    …it’s all about timing…Rio Tinto’s timing should be right on the mark…with the burgeoning electrification of the automotive industry, Ships, Planes, Etc will follow quickly…The demand for electricity is going to be overwhelming…and super conductors will be in ultra high demand…Rio Tinto trading at $61.99 as of 30/11/2021…Long on copper, thirty years from now looking well to do.

  29. Aj Aj on February 19, 2022 at 6:48 am

    I rather die than work underground

  30. Pwnanite on February 19, 2022 at 6:48 am

    Its 2021, wheres the follow up.

  31. asaf gl on February 19, 2022 at 6:50 am

    Wish i could work there !! I was working in a copper mine in middle east !!!

  32. Clark_Kent on February 19, 2022 at 6:51 am

    South Africans: "Hold my Castle Lager"

  33. JohnnyIbbs on February 19, 2022 at 6:51 am

    If you have 6 billion to spend why is he trying to get rich 🤷‍♂️

  34. Bhuda Lepadima on February 19, 2022 at 6:52 am

    And women want equality 🤦‍♂️

  35. Sakshi Das on February 19, 2022 at 6:56 am

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

  36. Red Light on February 19, 2022 at 6:59 am

    End Fracking ! Save earth 🌍

  37. Nate Griepentrog on February 19, 2022 at 6:59 am

    Dude what shaders do you have on?

  38. mining vids on February 19, 2022 at 7:00 am

    Shrinkage stoping

  39. Sodnom Bayarsaikhan on February 19, 2022 at 7:00 am

    I am majoring in Mining Geotechnical Engineering. Here we also have Rio Tinto managed world class copper-gold ore deposit as well, which also uses block caving method. I am looking forward to be an engineer at one of this magnificent mines.

  40. Ethan Charles on February 19, 2022 at 7:00 am

    They prop stopped digging cuz they hit bedrock. Gg

  41. Jack Snow on February 19, 2022 at 7:01 am

    they just make it impossible for most people to do anything now. BILLIONS of dollars just to get down to the ore… some how.
    "licenses" to extract the ore. we know where they pulled that idea from

    its all ridiculous.

  42. Mick King on February 19, 2022 at 7:03 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.

  43. emma on February 19, 2022 at 7:04 am

    never mine straight up.

  44. lemniscate on February 19, 2022 at 7:04 am

    2020 and the progress is slow

  45. Andrew Tvr on February 19, 2022 at 7:04 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 🧐

  46. GoHazard on February 19, 2022 at 7:06 am

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

  47. Bob Frazier on February 19, 2022 at 7:08 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.

  48. Mickanosh on February 19, 2022 at 7:08 am

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

  49. Leon Kellerhuis on February 19, 2022 at 7:08 am

    Dig baby dig

  50. Wild West on February 19, 2022 at 7:08 am

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

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