Inside the Resolution Copper Mine, 1.3 Miles Underground 

South Africa has 6 of the worlds 10 deepest operational mines. They go down to almost 13 000 feet (3.9km) now and are going deeper still. Down to about 14300 feet at the next stage. Absolutely insane.

He left us hanging about how they mitigate the heat!

Damnit I thought playing poker for high stakes took balls but 6 billion before you get permits that dude has balls the size of dump trucks.

I worked as a driller @ Kidd Creek mine in Ontario Canada. Its +9600' and the shaft bottom is approx 9880'. Its the deepest mine that I've worked in and I've been in a lot of em. Nice video. Thanks!!

Just goes to show how valuable copper is to a modern industrial economy. This has always been a relatively expensive metal but in recent years the price has skyrocketed and it's reflected in the price you pay for home electric wiring. Decades ago, things as mundane as GUTTERS and DOWNSPOUTS were made of this because it was resistant to corrosion and easy to form. Sheets of it were used as roof flashing around chimneys and vent pipes. Your whole house had copper pipe including the big drain lines; it was easy to cut and could be joined with solder rather than the threaded joints required on "iron" [actually steel] pipe. Now all that's been replaced with PVC.

Really interesting episode thanks!

Salute to these workers 🙋. Doing really hard to improve their livelihoods

The Stora Kopparberg mine in Sweden is vaguely similar, but only about 2000 feet deep. After centuries of production, it was turned into a museum in the 1980s, with tourists initially allowed on guided tours at 600 foot depth (interesting with some tableaus in side tunnels), though now apparently only upper levels are toured.

I am majoring in Mining Geotechnical Engineering. Here we also have Rio Tinto managed world class copper-gold ore deposit as well, which also uses block caving method. I am looking forward to be an engineer at one of this magnificent mines.

That’s my buddy Andy with the handle bar mustache. You’re a hero Andy! Love you!

I have only ever worked in iron ore mines I find underground mining so fascinating

It's amazing what lengths people will goto to make money. And the amount of engineering gone into it as well is also amazing.

What Minecraft mod is this?

0:15 No what's crazier is sky diving from a plane through the mine shaft..

Turn captions on at 4:52, enough said haha

Fascinating! The ingenuity of man is amazing!

I would LOVE to go there, or to one of the deeper mines to see what it feels like.

This stuff is so amazing....

In 1974-5 I worked at Creighton Mine 9 shaft. The shaft was 7138 feet deep. It took a lot less than 20 minutes to get to the bottom where I worked all one summer….

thank you for your simple work, undergraduate student work, mining sites usually are not hidden beneath the earth surface for great safety since one human life is more expensive than saving the earth surface nature, which always in a continuous change through the course of human life, most countries do not classified mining as a secret work rather it is a public wealth that must be published. We do know Bloomberg business work but in this video no business data have been expressed include deposit amount, other than cooper metals, annual production, internal or external buyers and other business information.

It is 2021 now, hope they got started by now.

Interesting stuff 💪

awesome video.. love it

Did he say 6 "B"billion invested ?!?!??!?!

INCO Creighton Mine in Sudbury is 7280' straight down. Cage is double deck and takes 60 men a trip.

Rio tinto, an Australian company had provided immeasurable benefit to us folk in superior and globe/Miami. We are eternally grateful

I did a shutdown for rio tinto out in Salt Lake City UT 😎pretty to hear about this

I wanted to be a miner but after seeing that lift I’m terrified already

I work in a coal mine #8 seam...best job in the world. Working underground is great. With any job some days are worse than others but there's been a lot of Sundays I got double time ($75 hr) for an hour or 2 of work then sleep the rest of the shift...lol. That doesn't happen at many other jobs. If I lose this job I don't know if I could ever work at a normal job...lol

No way. Great video

That's a SHAFT not a vertical tunnel, btw, I used to muck on the 9500' at Kidd Creek in Timmins, ON.

Mines like that give my anxiety

They mine this way in Australia, very uneasy can feel and hear the ground moving and crumbling above you, also creates massive subsidence on surface because the whole ground is caving into a sinkhole in theory, also can create air gaps when rock gets hung up then when it falls creating huge blasts of air killing people. But hey it's cheaper

Thx RU-vid recommendations

Interesting to think that the discovery of so much copper could bring its price down.

maccasa mine kirkland lake ontario is 7325 ft deep single lift .

This is bound to pay off at some point.

Wish i could work there !! I was working in a copper mine in middle east !!!

I worked for cobre mining company i wasa under ground crusher operater it was the best job that I had All of my family's where miners😎

Macassa mine in Kirkland lake Ontario was 7325 feet deep And was at one time the deepest single lift shaft in the western hemisphere . Creiton mine in Sudbury Ontario.over 7000 ft deep. Kidd creak mine in Tiimmins Ontario is the deepest base metal mine in the world almost 3000 metres.

The cores are beautiful.

It’s rock hard inside the shaft

According to U.S. copper data 1.85 million metric tons was consumed of unmanufactured copper in 2018. If this mine can feasibly produce a 1/4 of total consumption, at a cost of $2.77 per pound currently... Then 🤑$$$ inside of 3-4 years. That is if permits, malfunctions and operation costs don’t become their demise! And I thought oil companies took big risks. Wow!

Those core samples are amazing. I wish the public had more access to view those core samples. Kinda like NASA not revealing many pictures of outer space

4:40 little did they know something bad was going to happen to the whole world

South Africans: "Hold my Castle Lager"

Dude what shaders do you have on?

Rip to all the brave workers who lost their life in this mine collapse . Many of the victims can be seen in this video! So sad 😭

cores show how shattered the rock is and how liquid quartz and many minerals infiltrated the cracks before hardening.

As a geology student, I have a little more respect for people who work at harvesting natural resources after finding out gambles some of these companies take to obtain minerals and other commodities. 6 Billion is a lot, but even regular natural gas wells can run well into the millions before the first round of hydrolic fracturing takes place.

Hope they got their permits now

There are some pipes inside the copper mine,with yellow/blac color, what are those pipes used for? And what is the material of the pipes?

I’ve seen this head frame from the road. It’s between Mesa and Globe Arizona

This is what youtubes all about baby!

Kidd in Timmins and Chreighton mine in Sudbury both deeper single shaft.

7000feet... whats that about 3 meters?

This video is so incomplete. Give us some data, show some tools that they use , interview some of the miners, work schedule etc. There is so much cool staff you could have told us

I'm always scared of this elevators.

Single lift shaft deepest in the western hemisphere, Kirkland Lake Ontario 7325 ft Timmins Ontario Kidd mine 9300 ft the deepest copper mine in the world.

Creighton mine Sudbury has a shaft depth of 7080 feet .... one continuous run ... kid creek Timmins is 10000'.... heat is a huge factor . Ridiculous hot down there

It might be a safe method of mining but it also might not be. Theres phenominon called rock bursts that can occur under active fault zones that are associated with fault and orebodies and they could start occuring being in that deeo or in an active geologic area. Its not the top or "back" one need worry about but rather thrust or energy released by fault slippage and the ribs and floor heave from immense pressure and release of energy. It may or may not happen here, im not in the know about their geology here

2020? How is it working out?

The man bucket is how you get in and outta the shaft

Where are they located so I work

Are they hiring? How do I apply for a job with them?

i wouldn't have picked up a shovel without the permits first. that should've been number uno.

so its 2020....did they started with the copper? or just still undermining :D

is it worling now?

If this was Africa they would want it as soon as it looks profitable.

This way of mining sounds dangerous. Do they have to do it that way?

I wanna work there

Is the ore body the only one or are there others near by?

it was no longer investment, but hope for return.

idk about blowing up the ceiling that sounds like a horrible idea and a massive cave in

I imagine this method is far more dangerous..

Vale Inco 9 shaft at Creighton Ontario was 7,280 feet deep in the 1970's deeper now.

For years local businesses have helped resolution to open their underground mining facilities. Local businesses from Globe, Miami, Superior, San Carlos. Randy Seppala allowed other companies from other areas to work at resolution underground projects. You forgot us Randy Seppala, shall locals write letters to our new Senator?

I always prefered underground mines over open pit mines

It is 20.9 km guys

Ohmg 20minutes to go down

How did they discover the deposit, or first suspect that it was there ?

How’d they find it lol

6G $ Capex? Damn there is a shitload of ressource to justify such a price 😳

My first job was on a South African Gold Mine at 17 years old and it was at 13,000 ft deep....I thought it was normal as I did not know any better...I am a third generation miner....

COOL

They get to it. Whoops we were wrong no copper actually there.

Many copper mines also produce gold. Does this one ?

Yeeeeeeeeet this is for school

Just imagine when finding another planet with resources we can use besides what we use now. .that's why I wish had me a spaceship and find and claim that planet and build a mega powerful world through resources from the planet .I wouldn't need too much of what we use steel Cooper metal iron coal diamond etc that planet have what we need right too get too its planet in five weeks that will take us what we have 500 years too get there.unbelievable

Well its 2020 did they get the permit

Copper prices needs to go up Jesus that’s an insane job

So why isn't the heat used as a geothermal energy source?

I see what you did there at the end...

They sunk $6 billion never thinking that they could get $4.77 a pound for copper. Copper prices have gone thru the roof.

Is that located in Baghdad az ???

Wonder if this mines working yet

I've been doing this in Dorf Fortress for years?

so the people are gonna dig straight up? *minecraft flashbacks*

What company owns this mine

6 billion and they don't even have a mining permit?! I kind of hope it gets denied.