Opencast Copper Mine gets go ahead in Lower Zambezi National Park, Zambia

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02 February 2022, 16:06

Heym SR20

Opencast Copper Mine gets go ahead in Lower Zambezi National Park, Zambia

So it looks like this go ahead. It had been stopped, but challenges in the courts have now given the go ahead.

https://www.lusakatimes.com/20...o-now-go-ahead-upnd/

02 February 2022, 18:10

Russ Gould

Same thing happening across Botswana in the Kalahari ... entirely new huge copper belt.

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02 February 2022, 21:44

boarkiller

As bad as it sounds we do need copper in this world

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02 February 2022, 21:45

fairgame

quote:
Originally posted by boarkiller:
As bad as it sounds we do need copper in this world

And lead

03 February 2022, 07:30

Use Enough Gun

Hopefully,(but doubtful) the environmental impacts will be minimal. I just read about the Kennecott (Rinto Tinto) open pit mine just west/southwest of Salt Lake City today (it can be seen from outer space and is the largest man-made excavation and deepest open pit mine in the world-producing more copper than any other mine in history), and the remedial measures that they are finally taking to clean up the environment from a mine that has been operating there since 1863.

03 February 2022, 07:42

surefire7

quote:
Originally posted by fairgame:
quote:
Originally posted by boarkiller:
As bad as it sounds we do need copper in this world

And lead

Now, that’s funny right there Andrew!…and so true.

03 February 2022, 08:29

BaxterB

quote:
Originally posted by Use Enough Gun:
Hopefully,(but doubtful) the environmental impacts will be minimal. I just read about the Kennecott (Rinto Tinto) open pit mine just west/southwest of Salt Lake City today (it can be seen from outer space and is the largest man-made excavation and deepest open pit mine in the world-producing more copper than any other mine in history), and the remedial measures that they are finally taking to clean up the environment from a mine that has been operating there since 1863.

A good friend of mine used to work in that mine - crawling into the ventilation ducting and banging off the accumulation from the insides of the ducts. That was when he was in his early 20s in the late 80s and he still has a cough.

03 February 2022, 18:35

boarkiller

Copper in form of dust particles in combo with silica is pretty deadly stuff