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...freeze plant is only one of the technological innovations at McArthur River. The primary one is the method of production: known as "raisebore" mining, it has been commonly used to dig vertical elevator or ventilation shafts for close to 20 years. But before McArthur River came online in 1999, it had never been used to mine...
...uses two horizontal floors, above and below the uranium-ore zone. One floor is 1,740 ft. underground and the other is at 2,100 ft., where Powder was stationed on the day of our visit. To start mining a new section of ore, a drill is used to dig a 15-in. pilot hole from the upper level to the lower one. Once the drill bit punches through the ceiling of the lower horizontal shaft, the drill is removed and a 10-ton, 10-ft.-wide reamer with tungsten-carbide teeth is attached. At the upper level, a raisebore...
...place into a home. "In that moment I was utterly hooked ... Tractor smoke, fine Syrian tobacco, blue alfalfa and wild mint made a cocktail of, well, probably pheromones ... that produced for me a true olfactory epiphany. It was as though in that one instant the earth sang out: ?Dig holes here. Put down roots...
...poets are anti-slavery. An anonymous English lady thoughtfully composed songs for plantation slaves to sing while working: "Bless the fields we dig and plant! / Lord! supply our ev'ry want: / Give our souls and bodies food, / And grateful hearts for ev'ry good." James Boswell took time out from finishing the "Life of Johnson" to write an excruciatingly bad (and long) poem defending slavery, "No Abolition of Slavery," a work that until now has not been republished for some 210 years...
Venu: I could dig a girl...