RE:What is truly amazing is how this pad is designedI would tend to agree (best guess based on photo's). But whether or not CAT was the catalyst for all the event or just the final event is a TBD. Imo
I stand by my previous guess that it was a lot of things coming together. Imo
What has bugged me since day one is the rotational shear. The shear that was left standing was a different consistany than the underneath consistancy dropped area? The upper portion of the dropped area seems intact?
Was it sensor failures, there are numerous sensors on and underneath the ore/solution area. Was the sware getting coherent input? There is sware that rules what is happening to the HLP and there are triggers that provide on screen feedback in either realrtime or a pre determined i tervals .Say green, orange red for go / no go. Even deep mines with no ppl uground have feedback to the to surface operations. Imo
A more everyday example is the o2 sensor(s) on a car will throw code if parameters are out of spec, your car may run but it shows the error and should show trouble light.
If as was speculated a Main(s) was shredded and millions of ltrs of solution was just dissappering the sensors that where reporting to the ops board ahould/would have punched red across the board. There were some past reccomendations as to sensor management in the past? That said the op would have had heart palpitations last forever. ;)
As a side note i can imagine ppl pouring over the logs.
The above is just based on experiences and a lot speculation...
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