well, im enjoying my days off so far. tomorrow we go skiing at whistler for 2 days! so, ill post some pictures from my last trip to the mine. lets see, we will start off with our big shovel loading a haul truck. heres a wall failure in one of our pits hauling waste to the dump this is all wood from underground workings that we mined thru here is one of the biggest faiures i have to work with in our new pit here…
So, i woke up this morning to this. probably about 4cm of fresh snow. of course, it was completely dry, and im supposed to drive the 4h to salt lake today, and so it snowed to cause me havoc. Anyways, its sunny now, and i hope it will be a nice drive. im heading out about 1, staying overnight in Salt Lake, and ill be back in vancouver tomorrow for 10 days off! w00t! Also, erik got some pictures up their first sail in the…
So, The liberty pit is the project that im working on again here in nevada. Its an old pit that was started to be mined in 1907, we think the second open pit in the world actually. they used to use steam shovels and trains to load the ore and waste out. it continued to be mined by many different companies, lastly by BHP in 1995-1999 when the copper price was so low they closed it down. Then we bought the mine, and never went…