http://www.dougfine.com/2009/10/07/from-the-heart-of-the-heart-of-the-heart-or-how-to-jump-start-the-southwest-mining-economy-by-saving-the-earth-and-everyone-who-lives-on-it/ Personal website of author Doug Fine Sat, 04 Feb 2012 07:37:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 http://www.dougfine.com/2009/10/07/from-the-heart-of-the-heart-of-the-heart-or-how-to-jump-start-the-southwest-mining-economy-by-saving-the-earth-and-everyone-who-lives-on-it/comment-page-1/#comment-19778 OrgoCowboy Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:13:10 +0000 http://www.dougfine.com/?p=537#comment-19778 Doesn't sound off-topic to me Al -- thanks for the post. Didn't know about that lovely idea so close to home, though Safford is farther away than 60 miles. A similar plan in Alaska (using nuclear bombs to create a port) was narrowly averted and documented in the book "Firecracker Boys." Doesn’t sound off-topic to me Al — thanks for the post. Didn’t know about that lovely idea so close to home, though Safford is farther away than 60 miles. A similar plan in Alaska (using nuclear bombs to create a port) was narrowly averted and documented in the book “Firecracker Boys.”

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Unless it’s changed the downhill vehicle backs up the road. The idea is that it’s easier to maintain control backing up hill than down.
An interesting aside that not too many people are aware of is that Essex International(the copper wire and pipe manufacturer) spent three years in the early 70’s attempting to get a permit from the Atomic Energy Commission (the predecessor to the NRC) to detonate an atomic device(bomb) beneath the desert floor north of Safford Az. to fracture the copper ore and make it cheap to insitu leach from the ground without extensive excavation.
Sorry to get so far off topic,but this area is only about 60 miles from The FB ranch and aren’t you glad it never happened?

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