Fill it full of water and 20000 years from now the civilization that rises after we are gone will look at the lake and come to the conclusion that something from outer space must have smashed into the ground and eventually it filled with water. Or it was the result of a gigantic glacier. Or some other such nonsense. Remember this open pit mine when you are looking at depth charts of certain lakes around the world. Donner lake in California.... Mazinaw lake in Ontario...... Crater lake in Oregon.... The Mediterranean sea..... The gulf of Mexico.... The finger lakes in New York..... The list is endless. These are open pit mines That were filled with water. Now you may ask okay where did all the debris Get deposited When they were done digging the hole that is now the mediterranean sea. Good question. Dig out your Atlas. Look at the land to the South of that hole. We call that area the Sahara Desert. That's where they dumped everything that they didn't use. Whoever they were back then. Too far away from home? Keep in mind what you saw in this video. Now take a real good long look at the Grand Canyon. That is bedrock. That is a massive open pit mine and whatever it was they were Mining was a very clear vein of material and when they exhausted it they stopped. You want to know where they dumped the material from that particular mine? We call it the Mojave desert. Before you dismiss what I'm saying pull up the charts in the maps that show the different levels of depth in these bodies of water. And take a good long look at what you are seeing and compare it to this operation that you just watched. That is not coincidence. We know nothing at all about the real history of the environment that we find ourselves living in. Nothing.
Americans and their inflated claims. You are looking at rather a small hole, only 1200m deep. It is also a British Company that owns the mine. I know you murcans like to tell everyone what America owns, and it is NOT this mine. Is this hole bigger than the Marianas Trench? They always make themselves look rather dim. The title does not qualify the fact that is is a man made hole. Thus, there are millions of holes on the earth that is bigger than this mine.
rock trucks are the least efficient and most expensive way to remove ore, the way we did it in the past before fossil fuels was better if not more impressive than this what is going on here.
@@allan9603 I have a few videos in the works which I haven't finished yet. They're all train videos though. I don't often get the chance to film things like this because I'm from Massachusetts.
@@NorfKhazad No problem, I love train videos too. BTW, I lived in Shirley for 3 years when Ft Devens was open. Got 2 army buddies living there, one in Scituate and one in Fall River.
Would you pls. allow me to use the footage? I may include it in my outros or in a song. (Naturally you'll be credited + I ask cuz it's rare to see this.)
Thanks for posting this video. I haven't been there sense the year the visitor center was closed due to the land slide. Pictures and video do not do it justice. We saw one of those haulers up close and after a sweet young lady climbed down out of the cab, I got a picture of her and I standing next to one of those 6 plus feet tires. You would not think she could handle that monster but had been doing it for five years. PS. Most of those trucks you see are hauling over burden while only some of them are hauling cooper ore.
I believe it has the highest output, but simply due to the age of Bingham Canyon/Kennecott copper, it is still a larger excavation. I'm sure Chuquicamata will overtake it eventually.
@@travistractor it's funny, until this video recently took off nobody asked that question and it completely slipped my mind when I was making the voiceover. This is primarily a copper mine, but the copper ore also contains gold, silver, and molybdenum.
The mine supposedly is a copper mine. Copper is 100% pure profit. The other minerals mined make more than enough to cover all the operating costs. So is it a gold mine, a silver mine, or what?
Washington state has a horrible problem with houses being built less than 5ft apart and weirdos jogging everywhere. Maybe there's a way to send all the joggers to this place so they don't have to do it here? Is really annoying
I worked in two Kennecott mines during summers in the 1970s. Driving truck and drilling in the Ruth Nevada mine and working on the railroad tracks in Bingham Canyon. And, to be clear, Bingham Canyon mine did start as a canyon. I think it you were to look at total dirt removed there would be larger operations somewhere in the world. That said it is huge and to the detractors, this is how copper is obtained for most everything we do today, including "Green Energy".
@@rustyshackle917 It may surprise you but "non-Capitalist" countries also have mines (if they have resources to mine). And, these are probably more dangerous, dirtier, and less well regulated than this mine and smelter operation. Lots of money also went into state and county coffers and into wages for generations of workers. This one is just really visible...
I visited this mine back in 1976 (48 years ago). It looks like it's grown twice the size since then...and back then it was still pretty damn impressive. We knew it at the time, as the Kennecott Mine.
Just yesterday I was trying to explain to someone how, when we were first made, we had everything we needed. Everything beyond that has a cost, but, because we're addicted to convenience, we don't pay attention to that cost. This mine is a big, blatant, gaping reminder of that.
And how we used to live came with early death. Disease. Famine. A hoard of men could show up at any moment and kill everyone that wasn’t fit to work and enslave those that were left. Damn these modern times made possible because of mines like this. Yeah don’t ever think of the big picture or the obvious.
And how we used to live came with early death. Disease. Famine. A hoard of men could show up at any moment and kill everyone that wasn’t fit to work and enslave those that were left. Damn these modern times made possible because of mines like this. Yeah don’t ever think of the big picture or the obvious.
Wow,I'm 74 now and when I came back from Vietnam I went to Tucson Arizona and worked at Pima mines,this video sure brings back lots of memories, thanks for sharing it😊
@@michaelflaxcombsr9095 my understanding is the radar system can detect small shifts in large areas of the mine walls, allowing them to predict when larger landslides are imminent.
EXCELLENT VIDEO !!!!!! YOU MAKE A VERY GOOD VIDEO. PROFESSIONALLY DONE, WITH KNOWLEDGE OF THE SITE AND INFORMATION THAT GIVES THE VIEWER EVERYTHING THATS REQUIRED TOO EDUCATE, AND INFORM ABOUT THE MINE! THANK YOU! AND KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK BUDDY!
When the side of the mine gave way in 2013, there were reports that those huge trucks (some, not all) were crushed like toys under the sheer volume of material that sloughed off.
@@freeheeler09ahh look. Someone that doesn’t use copper or any other metals that are mined. You must live deep in the woods and don’t participate in our modern society.
