History, Politics And Current Affairs

And now for something interesting and potentially good news.

Turns out theres a seam of high quality Polyhalite under North York Moors National Park south of Whitby.

Anglo-American are constructing a new deep mine to extract what could be 2.69 billion tons and the new mine will access a 290 million tons soon.

Interesting YouTube video on the subject.

https://youtu.be/22dIkWYUAxQ

The sad thing is no one from UK enrolled in mining last year at the last mining college left in the UK. But perhaps spreading the news about such derp mining projects could spark some interest in this.

Hope they can actually get it out of the ground. In the US, it might take over a decade to get actual mining to start.

Looks like they've 'ticked all the boxes' for environmental etc.

Surface buildings will be low, farm-ish and tree-screened. Winch towers will be underground. A many-kilometres length tunnel (!!) will convey stuff to industrial site near coast for processing, another discreet system will carry product to docks...

Vertical and horizontal TBMs busily burrowing, known geology, on course, on route, on budget...

Also, IIRC, the 'near-future' value of product will be augmented by RusPutin's misbehaviour, which has restricted critical fertiliser exports from that region...

I'm impressed.

jemhouston wrote: ↑Fri May 26, 2023 8:55 pmHope they can actually get it out of the ground. In the US, it might take over a decade to get actual mining to start.

Initial proposal was submitted in 2011 - big projects like this take a long time wherever you are in the world. It took them until 2020 to secure enough cash to complete the works.

Had a bit of a rocky start under its original owner Sirius Minerals.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirius_Minerals

If this is a success....it lays a lot of groundwork for future UK mining.

But new projects need to get going if they are to build on this effort.

There’s an awful lot of institutional knowledge left in that area… they were pretty much all miners until the late 80s.