Turning a Mountain Inside-Out One Scoop At A Time

Turning a Mountain Inside-Out One Scoop At A Time

Submitted by cardinal on Mon, 06/28/2010 - 22:40

Turning a Mountain Inside-Out One Scoop At A Time: http://ping.fm/dlhZa Whatever you think of open-pit mining the sheer scale of turning a mountain into the world’s largest hole to provide millions of miles of telephone wire, countless feet of trendy house siding, and billions of feet of plumbing pipe is breathtaking. If it was a stadium Kennecott Copper’s (now RIo TInto’s) Bingham Canyon Mine could seat over 9 million people…