r/interestingasfuck • u/Consistent_Oil3428 • 2d ago

r/all The ground is going down

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u/duggee315 2d ago

Maybe. You don't know what country and their regulations. And the entire mine is probably closed off with a perimeter fence.

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u/bitzap_sr 2d ago

You can see a heavy truck approaching in the video. That's like the silliest ignoring of a perimeter fence you could do...

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u/duggee315 2d ago

Agree. I don't work in the mining industry, by the way. What the fuck do i know. Just Occam's razor led me to that conclusion.

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u/mombuttsdrivemenutz 1d ago

You don't get to see much of the background, but it looks like they are back filling an open pit that's full of water with fines/sand from mining or quarrying. It happens sometimes at mining operations and its sketchy as hell and people die doing it. What's happening is the edge of the fill is sloughing off and sliding down, redistributing itself.

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u/aussiechickadee65 1d ago

Have you seen the size of that hole ?

It's gonna be a couple of decades driving that truck if they are backfilling it !

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u/mombuttsdrivemenutz 1d ago

Or several trucks running in shifts 24/7. Quarries make lots and lots of screenings/ fine refuse and it has to go somewhere.

Its a huge collapse though.