Posted on 07/14/2017 5:35:13 AM PDT by rellimpank
Rio Tinto's proposed Resolution Copper Mine in Arizona would tunnel 7,000 feet underground, where rocks radiate heat from the earth’s molten core. It would suck up enough water to supply a city and leave a crater a mile and a half wide and 1,000 feet deep.
Planned for more than a decade, the project would be a prototype for a looming era of more invasive U.S. mines as companies run out of easy-to-reach deposits, geologists say. It is also the project President Donald Trump's Commerce Secretary, Wilbur Ross, had in mind as he began crafting a "hit list" of regulations that should be killed to speed industrial permitting.
"A company shouldn't have to be hundreds of millions of dollars into risk money without knowing whether there is a real chance it is going to get approved," Ross told Reuters in a May 9 interview, referring to the mine.
(Excerpt) Read more at mining.com ...
Dig baby!
So in the end, they will replace a mile and a half of desert with a mile and a half of Lake and canyon... Eco-weenies beeber is stuned!
A hole a mile and a half wide and 1000 feet deep?
Sounds like the beginnings of a magnificent landfill! That would hold the garbage from several cities for several score years, centuries even, if a sorting/recycling/waste burning generation plant was built there too.
Jobs, resource recovery, and electricity all in one!
Win-win.
Some one else can. If anyone wants to take my spot, you’re more than welcome. LOL! As I get uh, more seasoned, the less inclined I am to spend my time underground. Oh, a tinge of claustrophobia doesn’t help either.
“would tunnel 7,000 feet underground, where rocks radiate heat from the earth’s molten core”
I’m sure if put to scale, 7,000 feet wouldn’t even be as deep as a dimple on a golf ball...a tad bit short of the Earth’s core.
“Sounds like the beginnings of a magnificent landfill! That would hold the garbage from several cities for several score years, centuries even, if a sorting/recycling/waste burning generation plant was built there too.”
Check out the Penn and Teller series “Bulls41t.” If the talking head on the “trash” episode was correct, that could be the beginnings of THE magnificent landfill...for the whole country...for 50 years+. The implication was, the trash “problem” is much less problematic than the eco-knicker-twists believe.
KYPD
--true enough but below a couple of thousand feet it get much hotter--Homestake Mine in South Dakota at the lowest levels had rock temp of about 140F ,Casa Grande in Arizona similar temp and the South African gold mines likewise---
--having spent about 23000 hours underground, I'd like to live long enough to see how this one works out--suspect the equipment will nearly all be automated--
It’s time to stop the tyranny of the liberal fools and get America back to work.
The land area of the USA is about 3.8 million square miles.
Liberal policies just about destroyed the city of Detroit and left close to 100 square miles or more of polluted desolation.
And they are doing the same to countless other cities throughout the nation.
To put in in perspective, this mine will disturb less tha 2 square miles but will create many jobs, provide a needed resource and boost the economy.
MAGA!
The article is disingenuous.
The water for this project would be supplied by the mine itself because at the depth they are working they need to constantly pump huge amounts of ground water seeping into the mine out of the mine.
The area of this mine is already covered with existing open pit mines and underground mines so its’ not like they they are going into pristine , untouched wilderness and destroying it.
They are just putting a new mine in next door to several very similar mines that getting to the ends of their lives.
The new mine would actually help the environment because it keeps the area active and makes sure the infrastructure is kept in good working order rather being abandoned and left to rot.
“I’m sure if put to scale, 7,000 feet wouldn’t even be as deep as a dimple on a golf ball...a tad bit short of the Earth’s core.”
If the earth was shrunk down to the size of a ball-bearing, it would be 1,000 times smoother than the finest precision bearing ever made.
Fact.
I’m sure if put to scale, 7,000 feet wouldn’t even be as deep as a dimple on a golf ball...a tad bit short of the Earth’s core.“7,000 feet underground, where rocks radiate heat from the earth’s molten core”
Look at it this way:And don’t forget, according to our favorite scientist (and inventor of the INTERNET) the temperature of the earth’s core is "millions of degrees.” (thousands, millions - what’s three orders of magnitude when the issue is saving the earth?).
- If the earth’s core is hot enough to be molten Iron and other metals, it is way hotter than the surface.
- If the core is always hotter than the surface, heat is always flowing from the core to the surface.
- Anywhere on, or under, the surface of the earth where there is nothing to conduct heat from the earth’s core, will "radiate heat from the earth’s molten core.”
And 7000 feet of earth’s crust is sufficient insulation to make the temperature at the earth’s surface (“normal” to us surface dwellers) distinctly cooler than the temperature over a mile closer to "the earth’s molten core.”
And yet in the copper country of the UP, the largest deposit of copper in the world sits waiting.
Cant figure this one out. There is something more down there than copper.
Such long-term potential! Nuclear waste at the bottom, sealed in concrete, regular waste on top.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGV7Dr2iDvU
He states that 2 kilometers down, the Earth is millions of degrees. Give that scholar a Nobel Prize.
As an aside, he starts out smugly stating that geothermal energy is relatively new. Again, he is wrong - its been used at large scale facilities since the 1920's.
Isn’t this on the southern end of the Whites and Blues and starting at 4,000 to 5,000 feet above sea level to begin with?
Additional details here:
Business Mining a Mile Down: 175 Degrees, 600 Gallons of Water a Minute
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3559127/posts
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