South Africa has 6 of the worlds 10 deepest operational mines. They go down to almost 13 000 feet (3.9km) now and are going deeper still. Down to about 14300 feet at the next stage. Absolutely insane.

Damnit I thought playing poker for high stakes took balls but 6 billion before you get permits that dude has balls the size of dump trucks.

He left us hanging about how they mitigate the heat!

Just goes to show how valuable copper is to a modern industrial economy. This has always been a relatively expensive metal but in recent years the price has skyrocketed and it's reflected in the price you pay for home electric wiring. Decades ago, things as mundane as GUTTERS and DOWNSPOUTS were made of this because it was resistant to corrosion and easy to form. Sheets of it were used as roof flashing around chimneys and vent pipes. Your whole house had copper pipe including the big drain lines; it was easy to cut and could be joined with solder rather than the threaded joints required on "iron" [actually steel] pipe. Now all that's been replaced with PVC.

I worked as a driller @ Kidd Creek mine in Ontario Canada. Its +9600' and the shaft bottom is approx 9880'. Its the deepest mine that I've worked in and I've been in a lot of em. Nice video. Thanks!!

What Minecraft mod is this?

Really interesting episode thanks!

Salute to these workers 🙋. Doing really hard to improve their livelihoods

I am majoring in Mining Geotechnical Engineering. Here we also have Rio Tinto managed world class copper-gold ore deposit as well, which also uses block caving method. I am looking forward to be an engineer at one of this magnificent mines.

That’s my buddy Andy with the handle bar mustache. You’re a hero Andy! Love you!

0:15 No what's crazier is sky diving from a plane through the mine shaft..

The Stora Kopparberg mine in Sweden is vaguely similar, but only about 2000 feet deep. After centuries of production, it was turned into a museum in the 1980s, with tourists initially allowed on guided tours at 600 foot depth (interesting with some tableaus in side tunnels), though now apparently only upper levels are toured.

Turn captions on at 4:52, enough said haha

I have only ever worked in iron ore mines I find underground mining so fascinating

It's amazing what lengths people will goto to make money. And the amount of engineering gone into it as well is also amazing.

thank you for your simple work, undergraduate student work, mining sites usually are not hidden beneath the earth surface for great safety since one human life is more expensive than saving the earth surface nature, which always in a continuous change through the course of human life, most countries do not classified mining as a secret work rather it is a public wealth that must be published. We do know Bloomberg business work but in this video no business data have been expressed include deposit amount, other than cooper metals, annual production, internal or external buyers and other business information.

Did he say 6 "B"billion invested ?!?!??!?!

Fascinating! The ingenuity of man is amazing!

This video is so incomplete. Give us some data, show some tools that they use , interview some of the miners, work schedule etc. There is so much cool staff you could have told us

INCO Creighton Mine in Sudbury is 7280' straight down. Cage is double deck and takes 60 men a trip.

This stuff is so amazing....

Rio tinto, an Australian company had provided immeasurable benefit to us folk in superior and globe/Miami. We are eternally grateful

That's a SHAFT not a vertical tunnel, btw, I used to muck on the 9500' at Kidd Creek in Timmins, ON.

maccasa mine kirkland lake ontario is 7325 ft deep single lift .

awesome video.. love it

Interesting stuff 💪

It is 2021 now, hope they got started by now.

I would LOVE to go there, or to one of the deeper mines to see what it feels like.

7000feet... whats that about 3 meters?

They mine this way in Australia, very uneasy can feel and hear the ground moving and crumbling above you, also creates massive subsidence on surface because the whole ground is caving into a sinkhole in theory, also can create air gaps when rock gets hung up then when it falls creating huge blasts of air killing people. But hey it's cheaper

I work in a coal mine #8 seam...best job in the world. Working underground is great. With any job some days are worse than others but there's been a lot of Sundays I got double time ($75 hr) for an hour or 2 of work then sleep the rest of the shift...lol. That doesn't happen at many other jobs. If I lose this job I don't know if I could ever work at a normal job...lol

I wanted to be a miner but after seeing that lift I’m terrified already

This is bound to pay off at some point.

In 1974-5 I worked at Creighton Mine 9 shaft. The shaft was 7138 feet deep. It took a lot less than 20 minutes to get to the bottom where I worked all one summer….

Mines like that give my anxiety

Interesting to think that the discovery of so much copper could bring its price down.

No way. Great video

I did a shutdown for rio tinto out in Salt Lake City UT 😎pretty to hear about this

As a geology student, I have a little more respect for people who work at harvesting natural resources after finding out gambles some of these companies take to obtain minerals and other commodities. 6 Billion is a lot, but even regular natural gas wells can run well into the millions before the first round of hydrolic fracturing takes place.

Thx KZfaq recommendations

Macassa mine in Kirkland lake Ontario was 7325 feet deep And was at one time the deepest single lift shaft in the western hemisphere . Creiton mine in Sudbury Ontario.over 7000 ft deep. Kidd creak mine in Tiimmins Ontario is the deepest base metal mine in the world almost 3000 metres.

There are some pipes inside the copper mine,with yellow/blac color, what are those pipes used for? And what is the material of the pipes?

It might be a safe method of mining but it also might not be. Theres phenominon called rock bursts that can occur under active fault zones that are associated with fault and orebodies and they could start occuring being in that deeo or in an active geologic area. Its not the top or "back" one need worry about but rather thrust or energy released by fault slippage and the ribs and floor heave from immense pressure and release of energy. It may or may not happen here, im not in the know about their geology here

It’s rock hard inside the shaft

Are they hiring? How do I apply for a job with them?

This is what youtubes all about baby!

Wish i could work there !! I was working in a copper mine in middle east !!!

This way of mining sounds dangerous. Do they have to do it that way?

I’ve seen this head frame from the road. It’s between Mesa and Globe Arizona

cores show how shattered the rock is and how liquid quartz and many minerals infiltrated the cracks before hardening.

According to U.S. copper data 1.85 million metric tons was consumed of unmanufactured copper in 2018. If this mine can feasibly produce a 1/4 of total consumption, at a cost of $2.77 per pound currently... Then 🤑$$$ inside of 3-4 years. That is if permits, malfunctions and operation costs don’t become their demise! And I thought oil companies took big risks. Wow!

The cores are beautiful.

Creighton mine Sudbury has a shaft depth of 7080 feet .... one continuous run ... kid creek Timmins is 10000'.... heat is a huge factor . Ridiculous hot down there

2020? How is it working out?

Hope they got their permits now

4:40 little did they know something bad was going to happen to the whole world

Dude what shaders do you have on?

Where are they located so I work

Kidd in Timmins and Chreighton mine in Sudbury both deeper single shaft.

Single lift shaft deepest in the western hemisphere, Kirkland Lake Ontario 7325 ft Timmins Ontario Kidd mine 9300 ft the deepest copper mine in the world.

Is the ore body the only one or are there others near by?

so its 2020....did they started with the copper? or just still undermining :D

I worked for cobre mining company i wasa under ground crusher operater it was the best job that I had All of my family's where miners😎

South Africans: "Hold my Castle Lager"

So why isn't the heat used as a geothermal energy source?

Well its 2020 did they get the permit

I'm always scared of this elevators.

Many copper mines also produce gold. Does this one ?

How did they discover the deposit, or first suspect that it was there ?

never been done before but there is a permit for that. sounds crooked

is it worling now?

Those core samples are amazing. I wish the public had more access to view those core samples. Kinda like NASA not revealing many pictures of outer space

I imagine this method is far more dangerous..

Wonder if this mines working yet

For years local businesses have helped resolution to open their underground mining facilities. Local businesses from Globe, Miami, Superior, San Carlos. Randy Seppala allowed other companies from other areas to work at resolution underground projects. You forgot us Randy Seppala, shall locals write letters to our new Senator?

Hello friends, does your company and lithium ore provide copper ore supply? I come from China.

The man bucket is how you get in and outta the shaft

Rip to all the brave workers who lost their life in this mine collapse . Many of the victims can be seen in this video! So sad 😭

How’d they find it lol

*I am not an expert but when they blast underneath, what stops the surface that loses support foundation from carving in?* *And $6 billion invested in this? Who pumps in $6b in a project that won't yield a single profit for the next 6-7 years? How much copper value is down there plus all expenses considered?*

If this was Africa they would want it as soon as it looks profitable.

What company owns this mine

I wanna work there

It is 20.9 km guys

Is it just me or does it seem like a really bad idea to blow up the rock above the tunnel?

6B capex???

Its 2021, wheres the follow up.

Is that located in Baghdad az ???

What could possibly go wrong?

it was no longer investment, but hope for return.

I always prefered underground mines over open pit mines

6G $ Capex? Damn there is a shitload of ressource to justify such a price 😳

I've been doing this in Dorf Fortress for years?

It’s 2020, did you get the permits?

1:48 Ground water leaking in?

How did you,s know it was there,you dont usually do test holes that deep.Being that deep the sats wouldnt have picked it up surely.

Ohmg 20minutes to go down

i wouldn't have picked up a shovel without the permits first. that should've been number uno.

500 ft per minute ? :D In German Hard koal mines there records are 300 ft per min with worker without up to 4000 ft per minute :)

Wouldn't that type of mining cause surface subsidence? Here in eastern Ohio we have mines that are 800-1000 or more ft underground and about a year after it's longwalled the surface drops and ruins houses and roads. It did over $100,000 damage to my in laws house.