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.
“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.
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.
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.
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
When the mine is played out, that 1,000 foot deep crater can be filled with water and become Lake Resolution.