Comments on: Felt Soul’s quest for a big-ass hole

By: Layne

Layne — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 21:10:30 +0000

While Bingham Canyon is the largest single open pit mine in existence, if you zoom into the Carlin Nevada region, you can see two huge holes. The Barrick Goldstrike Mine and The Newmont Carlin Trend Mine. Rumor is that there is a single wall that seperates them and that if the wall was removed the two pits combined would be over 130% of Bingham.

There are some huge holes on this planet!

By: Jamie Cordova

Jamie Cordova — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 11:42:00 +0000

Its a shame, I live in Sitka AK, and my town and I voted yes on ballot measure 4. (Unlike our ever so intelligent Governer who would rather rape, pilage, and burn the Last Frontier) It was a 60/40 in favor of the clean water act. Pity that Sitka is the only community that has it together enough to see farther than 10 years down the road. When this thing blows up in Dynasty’s face I hope to hell they dont get off easy like there friends at Exxon Mobil.
Damn Republicans cant tell there ass from that giant hole in the ground!

By: Patrick McCormick

Patrick McCormick — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 12:57:25 +0000

To be fair we don’t vote on wether we destroy half the worlds salmon, we just try to pay the republicans more than the mining companies and native corporations can.

By: Linda

Linda — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 04:13:44 +0000

Hi Guys–

I have an aerial shot of this pit circa 1970 from a trip I made to Salt Lake. It was smaller then, but just as ugly.

Your website is very cool!

Peace,
Linda

By: tellurideknight

tellurideknight — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 08:21:22 +0000

Fascinating Mormon connection Seldom Seldom Seen Smith, thanks for sharing and reading!

By: Seldom Seen Smith

Seldom Seen Smith — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 00:58:24 +0000

Just wanted to add a little background to your big ass hole blog. Ironically, the mining operations in Bingham Canyon are related to Mormons, but in a backwards sort of way. Mining operations were started by soldiers who were sent by President Johnson to Utah to keep and eye on the Mormons. General Patrick Connor formed a mining district and heavily promoted it in order to get more non-mormons to come to Utah and diminish the power of the Mormon Church.

Ref: http://www.media.utah.edu/UHE/b/BINGHAMCANYON.html

A lot of tailings from the mine are in a big ass pile at the north end of the Oquirh Mountains – the south end of the Great Salt Lake. I hope you got a picture of that too. Tailings are pumped in a slurry to a shallow cess pool at the top of the tailings pile. The tailings pile looks like a big reservoir on Google Earth.

By: Dannyboy

Dannyboy — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 20:45:15 +0000

Mormons and big-ass holes – can’t wait to see them in HD. God I love Utah.

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Fri, 26 Oct 2007 15:46:04 +0000

[...] — all that dirt’s gotta go somewhere, and a lot of will be contaminated/toxic too. From Felt Soul’s blog: Our theory is that showing an existing open pit mine similar to the proposed size of the Pebble [...]