RE:RE:RE:newsOk guys. Please forgive a moment of fantasy here because that certainly is what this is.
If you have ever seen one of Elon Musk's product unveilings, you know what this looks like. He stands up before the screaming adoring crown and says as he unveils his line of $25,000 Ev's.
"How can we afford to do this? Well, what we did was bought our own copper mine. . . "
and then he quotes from Russ
This state-of-the-art copper production facility will have an environmental footprint smaller than any conventional open-pit or underground mining operation of its size, with water consumption 14 times lower, carbon emissions six times lower and energy consumption three times lower. These attributes make Florence Copper an exceptionally green project which will supply . . ." Tesla with cheap, environmentally responsible copper for the next 20 plus years.
It just fits. Not going to happen most likely, but there is some fun in imagining.