Utah Hwy 128

tamrock · Feb 26, 2020

cyzak said:
Do they heat the portal with anything or just push thru it.

Right now they're rehabbing the entry of an old portal which caved in. Dressing up in layers is all the warmth they're doing on this day. They want me to bid on some arched steel sets to install in the bad area of the old portal. Its pretty ratty ground in that portal that's been unusable for decades. The miners are all young bucks who are somewhat green, but don't understand the word impossible as of yet.

tamrock · Feb 26, 2020

cyzak said:
Let us not forget that Moab was built on Uranium mining that's how it got it start they would not even think of opening that type or any other mining now in that area.

I saw a TV show once on the uranium boom of the 1950 in Moab. It was a rush of prospectors armed with geiger counters. Some went bust and a few found fame and fortune in those times.

Mattock · Feb 26, 2020

tamrock said:
Right now they're rehabbing the entry of an old portal which caved in. Dressing up in layers is all the warmth they're doing on this day. They want me to bid on some arched steel sets to install in the bad area of the old portal. Its pretty ratty ground in that portal that's been unusable for decades. The miners are all young bucks who are somewhat green, but don't understand the word impossible as of yet.

Looks like they will be able to use a pretty good sized haul truck in that main. Good for them I am happy to see that we need more operations going.

Mattock · Feb 26, 2020

tamrock said:
I saw a TV show once on the uranium boom of the 1950 in Moab. It was a rush of prospectors armed with geiger counters. Some went bust and a few found fame and fortune in those times.

My grandpa told me of stories of men dragging petrified trees into Grand Junction back in the day loaded with uranium.