Cool! Do the have to pump water out with the bottom being below sea level? Actually it'd make a good lake provided you keep the crocs away.
Rio Tinto own the aluminium smelter down in Bluff and they've proven to be pretty hard negotiators. I'd have loved to do that race BTW. 10% average gradient would be good fun. Cheers, Dave On May 7, 2014, at 12:23 am, Alan C <[email protected]> wrote: > Palabora Mining Company (PMC), formerly a Rio Tinto company, mined copper > from this open pit until about 12 years ago when the underground phase began. > Rio Tinto sold out to a Chinese company last year. The headgear can be seen > to the right behind the pit. To the left of the headgear can also be seen the > flotation plant & refinery. The open pit is about 1.2km in diameter and 700m > deep, the bottom being about 300m below sea level. The large fault on the > northern side collapsed when wall maintenance was discontinued. We used to > have an annual road race out of the pit - roughly 7km from bottom to top plus > another 5km to the mine club. This is a two shot pano taken from the F7 waste > dump on the western side. > > https://www.flickr.com/photos/wisselstroom/13935216898/ > > > Alan C > > --- > This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus > protection is active. > http://www.avast.com > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
