[JimSEA]

The Feds are still holding this project up. It would be a very significant number of jobs and rescue for the disintegrating town of Superior. I was born and worked there in the old portion of the mine. Emotionally I'd sure like to see this go ahead. The rock and, of course, water temperature at the 6900 level is 189 degrees F. The older mine where my Dad worked some 40 years was hot at 145 F. The older mine pioneered cooling and ventilation technology in underground mining beginning around 1907.

[thackney]

They have some good videos on their mining technique at:

http://resolutioncopper.com/the-project/underground-mining/

[DesertRhino]

Imagine an economy where the FedGov didn’t impede everything it touched. How in Gods green earth could operations a mile underground disturb anybody?

[cripplecreek]

The Feds are still holding this project up.

If I had a dollar for every time I spoke those exact words......the feds would tax me into poverty.

In all seriousness, congress should have no say over projects entirely within a state's borders. Approval or disapproval of the keystone pipeline should be entirely up to the states it would cross. Directional drilling under the great lakes should be up to the states bordering the lakes (Canada already drills under the lakes)

[Rainier1789]

Will Obama condemn this polluting exploitation of America’s underground treasures, take credit for this American accomplishment under his watch, or say “You didn’t build that.”

[cicero2k]

Feds are also holding up nuclear waste isolation in Nevada, as long as Harry Reid is their senator.

Instead, spent fuel sits in unsafe swimming pool storage at plants around the country. Unsafe as in Japanese nuclear plant unsafe. Fuel storage is as much a risk as the reactor containment.

[rellimpank]

—interesting—unless hoist cable spec’s have changed , that depth with single lift is getting close to the limit of a safety factor of 6, IIRC——

[machogirl]

Thank you for this.

[Jeff Chandler]

That’s a beautiful area, Picketpost Mountain, etc.

[uglybiker]

[Mr. Lucky]

Ummm, the author must assume that his readers are as ignorant of history as he. The Quincy mine shaft #2 was 9,260 feet deep.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

ping