Europe's Deepest Mine is Not What You Think... 

No.

Is there a secure platform I can speak with fact boy or 1 of his writers?

@megaprojects9649 please consider doing a video on The Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa, OK. It has the largest collection of art from the American West and has been undergoing a massive rebuild in recent years and just recently got fully funded after inflation drove up the budget. A great place, worthy of more attention.

hello, can you make a video about Euronav TI class tankers

INCOMING Head of Pudding ......Fingers in ears and Run Away Run Away

give them time

@@matteofabbris7877 as a British person. Yes.

​@@DarkSitesChanneltbf we do them pretty good only problem is they're usually announced decades before being finished so things like inflation, housing market and other unforseen issues ramp up the price.

Except we will probably let the Americans have it like we did our oil

We've done loads of megaprojects correctly, but doing it correctly doesn't make the news quite nearly as much as fucking it up

Yes, they are doing it to help feed the world :D

I work in an underground coal mine that crosses from Indiana to Illinois. I think we're ~11 miles in with a conveyor all the way out.

and encourage people to make 10 billion more ! Fertilize Mars !

​@@murrayscott9546are you intentionally being a moron?

​@@murrayscott9546oh! You are one of those 😂

Well whenever Peter Zeihan? Hears about this I can stop hearing him harp on about running out of potash

@@murrayscott9546why Mars? Earth needs help also.

How about the most natural fertilizer, Manure!

And it sounds like it's called.. the Booby Mine??

always good for a deep-dive

You dont wanna miss it for sure

🎼 Brothers of the mine rejoice! 🎶

not like it big enough to see 🤏

sadly thats how investing works. My father has invested before and never seen even pennies back. Investments are a risk

@@ashleygoggs5679 agree but this one seemed a bit different, if I remember correctly it was during the £500m funding phase and it was pushed by the company directly to employees and when it didnt reach the target the money was gone and it was sold for maybe 30% value of the funding phase, and for something that is expected to pull out £2B a year worth of one of the rarest minerals in the world, I dont think it should have happened the way it did without some negligence or being fraudulent IMO.

Which is why you don't invest if you know nothing about financial economics. I am still hesitant about it even with a bachelor's in business and economics and being well on my way to a master's in economics. You need to be able to afford to lose everything (this ignoring the pension system which is an entirely different can of worms in itself.)

@@nicolainielsen7700 even Cassandra misses once in a while and ignorance can be bliss, just ask Peter Thiel 🤣

Yes due to the locals not wanting it, and putting so many barriers in the way

Just about a year ago in the middle east a warehouse full of fertalizer exploded and destroyed a lot of the city around it.

@@matthewbaynham6286Yea I've seen the videos and it's absolutely terrifying. Replacing that with a bunch of gravel/sand that's non-explosive is a game changer.

@@danielhale1 polihalide has no nitrogen content so i am afraid it sadly wont be replacing amonium nitrate.

It’s NOT a fertilizer and does not replace nitrogen! It’s a soil amendment that replaces minerals in the soil. That’s it. Nitrogen is still required to grow our food!

Tagaabachambaag

Ammonium Nitrate isn't legal in most of Europe, due to its tendency to explode. Nitrogen can be obtained through other means though and I wouldn't be surprised to see a future form of extraction from the air, since the majority of our atmosphere is made of Nitrogen. We humans also need nitrogen, we just can't obtain it from breathing, so we have to ingest it.

@@Arterexius The vast majority of nitrogen fertilizer is made using the Haber-Bosch process, ie. we *are* already pulling the nitrogen straight from the air and we have been doing that for more than a hundred years.

Good luck Houpfully you will recover quickly 👍

protect society. get the jab. stay indoors.

Man, covid is still a thing?

​@@notmadeofpeople4935 Yeah Covid is when 2 Social media people do a link up video Vid&Co/Co-Vid 👍👍

Get well soon

sounds so british to me

really? In that case you haven't got a clue what Britain is actually like in the 21st century!@@matteofabbris7877

Don't worry, from 2027 they will be able to get the conveyor belt in.

Agree

Or the harlot, depending on how you look at it ;)

but shares..go long!

Look at the chemical makeup in Wikipedia. It can be used straight as polyhalite. All the elements in it are soluble and soil processes will make it available to roots.

@@brianjonker510 Sounds good. If it as spreadable as muriate of potash then there are no downsides.

@@hedydd2 As a straight product it will lead to an excess of sulfur if this is the sole product used to meet potassium requirements.

@@brianjonker510 Yes, the sulphur content is very high. It should suit the modest extra potash requirement of intensive dairy farms that spread a whole lot of slurry on cut ground.

News organisations all over the world focus on problems (except in totalitarian states). A wealthy country with a good education system is meant to execute major engineering projects. That’s normal. This mine is fascinating and cool but ‘project goes according to plan’ is rarely news.

I don’t know why you do what you do but I love it

Poly-halite ,,means Halites um , group 7 elements , Chlorine mostly, but flourine, Iodine ,,,,Good for crops that need halites ,,Berries etc

same with watching the good old "onion news network" (when they still made the news show) & then real news

This is no different from any other traditional mine in that regard. Wikipedia is your friend there.

@@FreeManFreeThought Most " traditional mines" collapse over time. And this is definitely not a traditional mine.

I think it's been thought out well as in the vid they said they tried to avoid danger to houses

At 1.6Km deep sounds like a good place to store nuclear waste. Also the ground should be around 50C at that depth maybe heat for homes may be a useful thing.

Luckily Britain isn’t really subject to much seismic activity being one of the few countries hundreds if not thousands of miles from the edge of tectonic plates. Any earthquakes in the UK tend to be very minor and rarely cause any damage or are even noticed. A lot of old mines were just left but this being a newer project I imagine there’ll be supports and probably back filling when it’s exhausted of resources. It also quite some way from inhabited areas and stretches out under the North Sea rather than further inland. Although it could pose some minor issues, it’s unlikely that it will ever cause any serious harm or danger if it were to collapse.

They'll give the work experience boy a torch and a can of 3-In-One and tell him to get on with it.

@@steve.b.23 They'll build a conveyer belt underneath it for the boy to use to inspect the bearings and replace the worn ones. 😏

WD-40

@@steve.b.23 lmao

Quick google will tell you that the world's longest conveyor belt system is 61 miles long. I think they'll cope with 15 miles.

Sunny Stockton here, but originally from Guisborough.

I'm in Middlesbrough

You can say that about literally everything

and then buy back on the brink of bancrupcy

It literally says in the video, the project is being built by Anglo American, a private company.

It is private.

@@bujler ...... no shit🤨 👏🏻.....👏🏻.....👏🏻

"Aaaand this week's episode of Not What You Think Is... Noooot What You Think!"

Shut up. 😂

LOL. I thought the same thing.. but it is a mega project. Now Simon has to make a Not what you think projects channel. Soon we will get multiple hours daily of just Simon teaching us stuff

...What the heck are you talking about? Simon's channels are the ONLY channels on youtube.If you're seeing anything else posted,it's likely because you're still trapped in the matrix.Base reality is just Simon.

​@@jeffdroogdead joke

Possible, but probably not. I think it's probably bracken which goes brown in the winter. However, fire is a controversial aspect of the management of some moorland in the UK, used to suppress growth and keep it a suitable habitat for introduced game birds on shooting estates. This is very environmentally damaging and contributes to problems such as biodiversity loss, bad air quality during burning and rapid water runoff making flooding in the lowlands worse. If you look at the damage caused to provide a leisure activity for a tiny percentage of well-off people, I find it astonishing that this practice hasn't been banned. However I doubt they would do it around expensive industrial infrastructure like this.

Nah, I got you Fam. :)

All Whovians get you 💜

Essentially any or the northern European countries that are in or border that area has access to their own deposits as well.

Because, of course, mining engineers, who have been at the mining game for hundreds of years, haven't got a clue about how to do that and just dig willy-nilly.

There is no need to fill it in. It's in 1500 m depth. There are so many rock layers above it that even if it caved in, nothing would happen to the surface. It's not like they excavate giant caves there.

It’s been done for thousands of years

No, you absolutely do not leave TBM´s underground after finishing their job. You essentially need them to move through the whole tunnel to build it behind them and to exit the site so you can use it otherwise. Please educate yourself. And yes, TBM´s with defect that cannot be repaired undergound will stall the whole construction for weeks at least, because it cannot go back the way it came in - it is larger then finished tunnel behind it, so you either dig a big hole to replace the behemoth from the ground, or stop all work and slowly dismantle that thing underground while doing maximum for the tunnelhead to not collapse, as you need to replace/build another TBM there to finish the job of the previous one. On neither case you do not leave a TBM undeground

@@siriusczech cool.. thanks for the input

Its mostly one huge deposit. There are similar compounds in other places however Polyhalite is basically the holy grail becuase it has everything plants needs for fertilisation without any drawbacks. Most deposits dont have all the minerals needed and there for would need to be dosed with another fertiliser to make up for the difference.

@@ashleygoggs5679 Cool so now the mine is dug it makes more sense to expand it underground than build another entrance? That's wicked. I believe to UK has quite a lot of unexploited mineral wealth. It seems this project shows it's possible to get at it without massive environmental issues so perhaps this success will spark interest in other areas.

@@ashleygoggs5679 what plants crave....

@@bashisobsolete.pythonismyn6321it’s got electrolytes

@@ashleygoggs5679 We struck eco friendly -oil..that'll the economy for next 100 years starting 2027!

Dark matter

I thought that was Bulby.....

Is that a serious question, or is this a geology joke?

It gives me a pretty good idea what the size is, though. After all, I moved here 23 years ago. 🙂

Yeah, things should be measured like it's half the size of Yorkshire or Wales, summat we can all get our heads around!

electrolytes 🪴