Mes Aynak Petition Update, Mining Video

[littlemissmartypants]

9425 0530 This morning.
8968 2230 Last night.
40,572 NEEDED, 50,000 total.
Current rate estimates are:
457=65/hr
1500/day
Copper extraction due to begin the end of the year.
Fate of archaeological artifacts and ancient city embedded in the mine...unknown. Thank you.

http://www.change.org/petitions/president-hamid-karzai-prevent-destruction-of-ancient-site-of-mes-aynak-the-environmental-damage-3

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Copper mining and smelting has not undergone major technological revolutions except in terms of scale and mechanisation. This is largely because extracting the copper metal from the rock remains a complex business both in the preparation of the ore and the repeated stages of roasting, melting and remelting that takes places in furnaces.

This historic footage of mining and smelting in Utah, USA was shot in 1963 and demonstrates the processes of extracting copper that had been taking place since the turn of the twentieth century. The Utah mine was at the time one of the largest in the world. An open pit mine, dynamite was used to blast the rock face to reveal the copper ore lodes.

http://copper.goskar.com/2012/09/23/historic-footage-of-copper-mining-and-smelting-in-the-1960s/#more-250

[littlemissmartypants]

1. Recalculate Update

now at 44/hr. Please sign and ask all those you can to sign. Also in jeopardy is the aquifer that supplies a population of about 3 million souls and is their main agricultural water source. Thank you.