The spectacular landslide that shook the earth at the Bingham Canyon copper-gold mine in Utah on April 10 has been captured in an equally spectacular high-resolution satellite image taken on April 18. The image below is a humble reduced-resolution version; to see the real thing in all it’s lovely detail, check out this week’s WorldView […]
If you haven’t seen photos of the massive landslide that struck Utah’s Bingham Canyon copper-gold mine on April 10, check out the story and accompanying photo gallery at the Deseret News, and these spectacular photos at the Kennecott Utah Copper page on Facebook. Happily, nobody was hurt in this astonishing incident; mine operators had plenty […]
The folks at Ground Truth Trekking just released a nifty interactive map called Alaskan Hardrock Mining Exploration, showing the locations of active hardrock mines and hardrock mining prospects in Alaska. Until we saw this map we had no idea there was so much potential mining activity across the state. You can read a lot more […]
I’ve been recently asked to demonstrate the visual impacts of some potential wasterock dumps in Superior Arizona. We’ve acquired the plans for the wasterock dumps. The plans were drawn by Golder Associates in 2010 for Resolution Copper Mining, a company pushing for the privatization of public land for the purpose of copper mining. So we […]
The concerns of many fishing and sportsmen’s groups, environmentalists and local Alaskans have risen over the proposed Pebble open-pit copper/gold mine in southwest Alaska. Here I have superimposed an image of the mine footprint over Washington DC, using Google Earth Pro, to demonstrate the size of the proposed open-pit mine and the tailings and wasterock […]