So, over the Christmas holiday, I decided to visit carlota and bring noa along since she has never been to a mine before. now, arizona has 350 clear blue days a year. that leaves us with ohh, about 2 weeks of bad weather a year. we happened to pick one of those for our mine visit. but, of course, bad weather = better pictures for andrew, so it wasn’t all bad. and in the end, the worst thing that happened, the wind deciding to tear noa’s glasses off her face and fling them into the great yonder, turned out okay, because they were heroically rescued by my co-worker brock the following day a week later.
so, anywho, lets have a look
a HDR panorama of the pit
spare haul truck tires laying around
heres were we keep all the money, copper cathode ready to be shipped
the leach pad pano
loading a haul truck
picture of the pit from the lookout
the tail end of a blast – and the dust storm that was attacking us
so that was the tour! thanks again to brock for taking us around.