As I drive out of base camp each day, heading to the mine, this is what I see. It is called the green wall and all of the green is copper waiting be be extracted. This "wall" is about 20 miles from the area that is being mined right now. 
A closer look at the wall.
A closer look at one of the rocks from the wall.
A closer look at the wall.
A closer look at one of the rocks from the wall.
Me at the green wall. Without getting into the mineralogy - look at all that copper. It is crazy! There is a lot of copper mining in Arizona, but you never see anything like this.
I can see why your company wants to mine there. Its hard for me to see the green in the first two pictures, but those rocks sure are bright. I feel stupid, but I didn't know that mined copper is green.
ReplyDeleteThat rock you're squating under looks like its going to crush you.