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)
Don’t play with them tigers OKC
Dude what shaders do you have on?
It was black people who created and built all of this.
-true story
COOL
I wanted to be a miner but after seeing that lift I’m terrified already
2020? How is it working out?
I had closed captioning turned on. The vid ends with the hope the "dick pays off". This is a Bloomberg video.
Irony.
2020 and the progress is slow
Is it just me or does it seem like a really bad idea to blow up the rock above the tunnel?
I’m very surprised that no one in the comments understands that this area is a very sacred area called Oak Flat. My people are indigenous to this area and have Sunrise ceremonies here for hundreds of years. When my people were removed from this area and resettled on the San Carlos reservation, we would still use Oak Flat for our very sacred ceremonies. When President Eisenhower came to office he set this land aside as a natural reserve for everyone use so that it would not be sold off. Fast forward —President Obama and John McCain made a deal with a European company to buy it. This sacred area will be destroyed in many different ways by this copper mine. Greed has driven us out once again. Please look all this up for yourself…
cores show how shattered the rock is and how liquid quartz and many minerals infiltrated the cracks before hardening.
It takes money to make money. kind of f***** up really, this is exactly how the rich are getting richer and…. I think you guys know the rest
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.
Rio Tinto sure cheaped out on that dinky little conveyance they call a man bucket , if that’s the only way they transport men underground…other mines have a conveyance that can hold 50 people…some have double or triple decks big enough to drive a six yard scoop onto. I am a hoist man at a mine where our conveyance holds 40 people and travels at 1200 feet per minute…I was at another mine in Ontario, Canada where the conveyance travels at 2000 feet per minute.
Everyone needs copper, duh. Better for America that we mine for ourselves, less reliant on other countries. nuff said. Terry Woods
South Africa has 6 of the worlds 10 deepest operational mines.
They go down to almost 13 000 feet (3.9km) now and are going deeper still. Down to about 14300 feet at the next stage.
Absolutely insane.
who esle here for class
Is that located in Baghdad az ???
Interesting stuff 💪
Salute to these workers 🙋. Doing really hard to improve their livelihoods
The man bucket is how you get in and outta the shaft
Random crap backround music sucks. Junked another video👎🏻💩
Well its 2020 did they get the permit
Those core samples are amazing. I wish the public had more access to view those core samples. Kinda like NASA not revealing many pictures of outer space
I work underground in a nickel mine, i love the way they always interview the geos and engineers. Its the miners that really know how the mine works.
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
Vale Inco 9 shaft at Creighton Ontario was 7,280 feet deep in the 1970’s deeper now.
I want to study in your country. Coal mines
End Fracking ! Save earth 🌍
I’m always scared of this elevators.
Kidd Creek .
A gold mine in Timmins ontario is almost 10,000ft deep . / shaft
As well as Kirkland lakes new project.
Sudbury ontario CreightonMine 10,000ft+
I Love the area .
LOTS of potential for Mining and prospecting <3 🙂
According to U.S. copper data 1.85 million metric tons was consumed of unmanufactured copper in 2018. If this mine can feasibly produce a 1/4 of total consumption, at a cost of $2.77 per pound currently… Then 🤑$$$ inside of 3-4 years. That is if permits, malfunctions and operation costs don’t become their demise! And I thought oil companies took big risks. Wow!
It is 2020 right now
that orange reflective jacket with the thick neck protector collar is awesome
FU@K BLOOMBERG !!
I’ve been doing this in Dorf Fortress for years?
Ohmg 20minutes to go down
Hope they got their permits now
Why do I feel we are going to run out of earth😬
so its 2020….did they started with the copper? or just still undermining 😀
Wow
They are in so dee, the only logical thing left to do is to keep digging..
HEEEEEELL no. ”If you ended up in a hole, first thing you do is stop digging deeper”
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1:41 Who would drink that red water?
Calcified Iron Pyrites
They prop stopped digging cuz they hit bedrock. Gg
Now that’s a man cage
How was copper mined 100 yrs ago
They said looking from the top you cannot tell the copper is below. Bullshit, you can see the sparking minerals from oak flat!
I’d never want to work in a mine… I’m more the air conditioned office type, but damn it if this isn’t cool as hell. Would be awesome to go down into one some day.
It’s 2020, did you get the permits?