Some Pictures from the mine

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.
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heres a wall failure in one of our pits
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hauling waste to the dump
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this is all wood from underground workings that we mined thru
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here is one of the biggest faiures i have to work with in our new pit
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here are all the other filures…
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a blast
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a nice day at the mine
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some trucks in the bottom of the pit
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onne of our surveyors looking at a dozer clearing a drill pad
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i got lots of haul truck pictures
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and more haul truck pictures
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this is a drill working on some holes for us figuring out of theres ore under there
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another shot of the drill into the sun
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here’s blair and I on the open road, with the mountains behind us
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ohh yeah. blair’s living 2 doors down from me for 4 months. we hired him part time to help out, before he starts back at school.

anyways, theres a few others on the flickr page.

hope to get some good pictures up at whistler tomorrow. till then.

Snow in ely, heading out, and erik’s first sail

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 Nicholas Allen. Pretty funny.
part1
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TA3MP4RM6fk[/youtube]

part2
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reRTj9fwBaw&feature=related[/youtube]

and, this is when they first got the boat, and erik took me on his less than seaworthy dinghy, with all my camera gear of course.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srsnh_HM82s[/youtube]

Liberty Pit

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 back into that pit.

Here is how it looks today.
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That on the left side is the mother of all slope failures. the angle of repose of natural bad rock tends to be at 15 degrees or so, this has failed to about 10. its nasty stuff. we hope to stick to the right side of the pit, and the bottom, where the ore is. eventually we might go in and mitigate the big slope failure.

there has been lots of fun stuff going on here, im just working so much that i havent been able to get anything posted.

hopefully there is much more to come!