Trash people
Posted on 06/08/2017 4:26:43 AM PDT by C19fan
I disagree with Derbyshire. The recovery would be surprisingly quick.
The amount of technology distributed to the populace is absolutely amazing and it would be put into play immediately.
The populace would be much smaller.
Trash people
Nearly all of those previously mined deposits are readily available through SALVAGE. I could find all the copper I need to make my short sword just by stripping electrical wiring.
The Resolution project is located on what was called the mill fault and below the old Magma Mine where I worked and the Town of Superior Arizona where I grew up. My dad worked there beginning in the early 1940s after the goldmines were closed due to WWII. He had quite a career there and at San Manuel Mine (also a Magma/Newmont Mine where I worked for much of my career).
I worked at Magma / Superior for a couple years before going to work at San Manuel after I got out of the service. The Superior mine was a hot and dangerous mine, taking a couple of lives every year.
This mine is in Arizona and the ore body is huge being a porphyry deposit below a previously mined our high grade ore body that was worked from about 1910 to 1982.
They could simply mine the garbage dumps.
If civilization collapsed, there would be 50%- 90% fewer inhabitants of the Earth within one year.
Just reading the following last night. Plenty of milk too:
Isa 7:22 Nevertheless, there will be enough milk for everyone because so few people will be left in the land. They will eat their fill of yogurt and honey.
Malarkey. The "per human" amount of available resources will skyrocket and be nicely collected in urban concentrations, much of it in already-pure or nearly so condition. Guy obviously has not read much science-fiction.
I was thinking of plumbing. A lot of older homes have post and tube aluminum wiring. Mine does. I’m replacing it a bit at a time as I can.
Mostly they were separated by long distances.
IIRC there was only one place where there was a copper tin mix, either in Iran or Iraq and that was where bronze was discovered.
After that they were mined separately. Tin was mined around the Black Sea and in England. Copper was mined all over the place as copper is fairly common.
There won’t be enough copper left to bring ESPN to the indigent for free, is what they mean. :)
Plumbing is a good source, just have to be careful of the older lead solders. Raid the plumbing and electrical supply houses first.
That makes no sense. The copper would still exist...and it may be easier to get to because it’s already been processed and just sitting there.
But it’s in weird shapes, like wires, pipes and coins. It will have to be melted down so it can be turned into something useful, like wires, pipes and . . . coins.
Melt down what is above ground as there are miles and miles of copper and aluminum in all the buildings and outside on the poles.
People “mine” circuit boards for precious metals as it is easier then digging for it.
The environmental wackos would have been killed off so it would be easy to mine new sources as well.
I second your statement. In 1976 I was in a gold mine in South Africa at a depth of 9,200 feet. The wall temp was 120F. The air temp was about 100F and the humidity was about 90%. Not a fun place to be in.
The propose Crandon Wis. mine is very close the surface and is very rich also.
We have the ore if the anti’s let us.
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