RE:A Pipe Dream that is D.O.A.Oregonduck wrote: Teck's Red Dog Mine in Alaska uses truck-and-loader system to transport its Zn/Pb concentrate to the Trail Smelter in BC for refining. There is no hope in Hell, the First Nation and the territorial Yukon Govt will approve an access road, Water Permit and construction of a tailings dam in the Alpine Slope where North Rackla is located on FNNND's pristine land. They have learned their hard lesson from Victoria Gold's dam disaster. Getting the billion-dollar financing is impossible to mine a mediocre deposit.
"The major Red Dog Mine facilities include the Red Dog Main Pit, Aqqaluk Pit, mill, Tailings Storage Facility, main waste stockpile, fresh water storage reservoir, water management systems, an airstrip, and Personnel Accommodations Complex. Power is supplied by on-site diesel generators."
more misleading posts.... there is no tailings.. as the raw ore will be shipped to the plant. Making it very envorment friendly. Also this won't be open pit but a shaft type mine. You can say it's not thick... BUT is sure LONG and it's open ended on both ends... how long will it be?