3000 feet Underground

I am back. As mentioned in my previous posting, I went to Canada. Part of my trip was to visit our mining operations. This meant I traveled to Esterhazy, Canada and visited our mines referred to as K1 and K2. I had the pleasure of joining three others on a tour of the K1 mine. This meant jumping in an elevator shaft and traveling at 1300 meters per minute down. Here is a picture of the elevator:

Next, we traveled through 4,000 miles of tunnels that we have mined seeing everything we have built. Below is one more picture.

Yes, those are full size Toyota Land Rovers with the top's cut off (the ceilings are pretty low in thte tunnels). The walls in this shop were 4 stories tall. Need I remind you that I am 3000 feet underground when I snap this photo....amazing. The machines that we use to mine are to big to send down the shaft, so we build them underground. Did I say amazing yet?

As always, I love my girls....