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. Clark_Kent on August 11, 2022 at 6:42 pm

    South Africans: "Hold my Castle Lager"

  2. Andrew Tvr on August 11, 2022 at 6:45 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 🧐

  3. Star666 Lane on August 11, 2022 at 6:46 pm

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

  4. Mick King on August 11, 2022 at 6:50 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.

  5. Bob Frazier on August 11, 2022 at 6:52 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.

  6. Leon Kellerhuis on August 11, 2022 at 6:57 pm

    Dig baby dig

  7. Adam Esreb on August 11, 2022 at 6:58 pm

    Yeeeeeeeeet this is for school

  8. Sodnom Bayarsaikhan on August 11, 2022 at 6:59 pm

    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.

  9. Ernest Clements on August 11, 2022 at 7:01 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?

  10. Bhuda Lepadima on August 11, 2022 at 7:02 pm

    And women want equality 🤦‍♂️

  11. jack weyant on August 11, 2022 at 7:03 pm

    4:50 turn on the captions and have a laugh

  12. SLG on August 11, 2022 at 7:03 pm

    It’s 2020, did you get the permits?

  13. NAEC Nanjing Auto Electric Co., Ltd. on August 11, 2022 at 7:04 pm

    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?

  14. Xzxex on August 11, 2022 at 7:05 pm

    Is 2020

  15. Aaron Wilcox on August 11, 2022 at 7:06 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

  16. GoHazard on August 11, 2022 at 7:07 pm

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

  17. Joe Bampton on August 11, 2022 at 7:08 pm

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

  18. John DoDo Doe on August 11, 2022 at 7:09 pm

    The Stora Kopparberg mine in Sweden is vaguely similar, but only about 2000 feet deep. After centuries of production, it was turned into a museum in the 1980s, with tourists initially allowed on guided tours at 600 foot depth (interesting with some tableaus in side tunnels), though now apparently only upper levels are toured.

  19. Disgrutledhobo on August 11, 2022 at 7:09 pm

    LOLZ But, Biden cancelled it!

  20. SJL Network on August 11, 2022 at 7:09 pm

    awesome video.. love it

  21. roadtripdave on August 11, 2022 at 7:10 pm

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

  22. Andy Anderson on August 11, 2022 at 7:10 pm

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

  23. Big Ball Of Tape on August 11, 2022 at 7:10 pm

    How do I get a job working in one of these mines?!?

  24. JohnnyIbbs on August 11, 2022 at 7:10 pm

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

  25. T. R. on August 11, 2022 at 7:11 pm

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

  26. Jack Pot on August 11, 2022 at 7:11 pm

    What could possibly go wrong?

  27. Alex Moses on August 11, 2022 at 7:12 pm

    magma, not lava

  28. Askar Top on August 11, 2022 at 7:14 pm

    is it worling now?

  29. Jose Ortega on August 11, 2022 at 7:14 pm

    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!

  30. TyJo Mello on August 11, 2022 at 7:14 pm

    Interesting to think that the discovery of so much copper could bring its price down.

  31. Fusion325 on August 11, 2022 at 7:16 pm

    I see what you did there at the end…

  32. Thomas Schick on August 11, 2022 at 7:16 pm

    …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.

  33. asaf gl on August 11, 2022 at 7:16 pm

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

  34. Chris McMillen on August 11, 2022 at 7:17 pm

    Wonder if this mines working yet

  35. Colton Blumhagen on August 11, 2022 at 7:18 pm

    1:41 Who would drink that red water?

  36. Jack Snow on August 11, 2022 at 7:19 pm

    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.

  37. Hilmon stigler on August 11, 2022 at 7:20 pm

    Cool beens

  38. Colin Elwin on August 11, 2022 at 7:20 pm

    They mine this way in Australia, very uneasy can feel and hear the ground moving and crumbling above you, also creates massive subsidence on surface because the whole ground is caving into a sinkhole in theory, also can create air gaps when rock gets hung up then when it falls creating huge blasts of air killing people. But hey it’s cheaper

  39. Aj Aj on August 11, 2022 at 7:21 pm

    I rather die than work underground

  40. Mickanosh on August 11, 2022 at 7:24 pm

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

  41. Interesting Roundups on August 11, 2022 at 7:24 pm

    Shrinkage stoping

  42. Ernest Clements on August 11, 2022 at 7:25 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!

  43. emma on August 11, 2022 at 7:26 pm

    never mine straight up.

  44. Pwnanite on August 11, 2022 at 7:28 pm

    Its 2021, wheres the follow up.

  45. Wild West on August 11, 2022 at 7:29 pm

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

  46. Vaccinium augustifolium on August 11, 2022 at 7:30 pm

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

  47. Peter Burger on August 11, 2022 at 7:30 pm

    My first job was on a South African Gold Mine at 17 years old and it was at 13,000 ft deep….I thought it was normal as I did not know any better…I am a third generation miner….

  48. Live Action on August 11, 2022 at 7:31 pm

    They need to stop digging.

  49. Sakshi Das on August 11, 2022 at 7:34 pm

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

  50. The Global Deception on August 11, 2022 at 7:39 pm

    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.

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