this is more close to home then ya think

[jar1292]

What are your thoughts? I just finished up a 14 month job in the field with them, our shop builds shovels and repairing the dippers and other misc. Equpment for them. My cuz works in the pit (sub-contract) and said that there was at least one shovel, 2 drills and a number of cranes that were on the rebuild of the shovel, he was there 2 nights ago and said he knows that his company lost at least 2 million in tools and equipment. But that is a drop in the bucket or a grain of sand so to say compared to the shovel and drill rigs. I am not sure on the size of shovel but I work on the dippers that are up to 72 cu. yd. and the haul truck in the pictures you can fill them in 4 scoops. The job I was on was at the new MAP site where they will refine a byproduct that comes from the pit "Molybdenum" it is used in fertilizer, steel hardener, graphite lube and many other things. It runs about 55 thousand a ton and they say they can produce around 600 tons a day if this plant ever gets running. It is a few years away if ever. Any one that has worked for Rio Tinto knows that safety is #1 no matter the cost and last night it shows. This company makes so much just in byproducts it aint funny.

http://www.ksl.com/?sid=24748916&nid=148&title=slide-reported-at-kennecotts-bingham-canyon-mine&fm=home_page&s_cid=featured-1

[Fred]

     OMG!

[oldgold69]

those haul trucks look like Tonka toys in a sand box

[JB400]

They're gonna have to make a wider hole than what they originally expected.  They dug the hole too steep.  With as much money a mine makes, they'll be back open soon.  Just glad no one was injured.

[Tilar]

Wow, that's quite a slide.  Lucky nobody was hurt.

[Mopar Nut]

 , my son was just there not too long ago with his boy scouts.