Submitted by Captain Black on
"With the company now having submitted an application to the North York Moors Park Authority for permission to continue mining operations for a further 25-years, consultation events are being held throughout this month to explain the proposals to local people.
The current planning permission which has been in place since 1968 expires in 2023.
Following the successful transition which saw the mine become the world’s first and only producer of the ground-breaking multi nutrient mineral polyhalite, the planning application is the next phase in the ‘Building Boulby’s Future’ strategy."
Storage ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7gT3S_SRLk&list=RDe7gT3S_SRLk&start_rad...
"Boulby in the News ... :
- BBC Look North, October 2017, Boulby Underground Laboratory hosts MINAR V
- Channel 4, October 2017, MINAR V at Boulby Underground Laboratory
- BBC Radio 4 Today, February 2016, Deep Science in the Boulby Underground Lab
- Evening Gazette, July 2015, See Inside Boulby Mine's new £1.77 Million Underground Laboratory
- Physics World, May 2015, Boulby Lab, feature length article on deep dark matter research
- Durham Press, November 2014, Energy Minister visits Boulby Carbon Capture and Storage project
- BBC Science, September 2013, Boulby Cosmic rays & Carbon Capture project features at the British Science Festival
- BBC News, August 2013, Boulby mine: Underground life gives alien clues.
- Daily mail, 24th January 2011, Dark matter: Deep in a mine on the edge of the North Yorkshire moors, a British-led team is trying to solve the biggest mystery in the universe.
- BBC1's The One Show, 26th April 2010. The People's Astronomer Mark Thompson looks for Dark Matter at Boulby
- BBC Radio4 - Frontiers; 'Dark Matter', 23rd Nov 2009. Half hour documentary on the search for Dark Matter at Boulby.
- The Economist's 'World in 2009', 19th Nov 2008: Dark Secrets: The physics discovery of 2009 may come from Yorkshire
- Wall St Journal, 11th Nov 2008: Mining for Dark Matter, Some go WIMP hunting
- Whitby Gazette, 31st Oct 2008: Scientists to shed light on the search for Dark Matter
- Radio Sheffield - 12th Sept 2008: Toby Foster show, SMP Interview
- Radio 5 Live - 10th Sept 2008: Simon Mayo show, SMP Interview
- BBC North Yorkshire, 10th Sept 2008: UK challenge to Big Bang machine
- BBC Radio York - Breakfast show, NJTS Interview 10th Sept 2008
- Teesside Gazette, 10th Sept 2008: Potash mine in race for Big Bang
- BBC Channel 4 news, 9th Sept 2008: Lab challenging collider project
- The Observer, 7th Sept 2008: UK digs deep for secrets of cosmos
- Bdaily, 4th July 2007: Laboratory's name marks East Cleveland heritage
- BBC TV, 9 Feb 2006: Horizon - Most of our Universe is missing
- Physics World, May 2005: The Universe reveals its dark side
- New Scientist, Dec 2004: Last word - relieved scientists
- BBC TV, 5 April 2004: The Sky at Night - Digging for Dark Matter
- Newsweek, 20 October 2003: A Universe of Riddles
- CERN Courier, June 2003: Boulby extends the search for dark matter
- Whitby Gazette, 2 May 2003: Science minister joins hunt for WIMPs
- Guardian, 1 May 2003: Dark matter in deepest Yorkshire
- Financial Times, 30 April 2003: Scientists in salt mine aim to shed light on dark matter
- Guardian, 30 April 2003: Race to find dark matter heats up
- Independent, 30 April 2003: A matter of deep, dark significance in the salt mines of Yorkshire
- Daily Telegraph, 30 April 2003: Are there Wimps down there??(reprinted in Sydney Morning Herald, 5 May 2003, as The search for the missing universe)
- The Times, 30 April 2003: Is the secret of dark matter 3,000ft underground?
- The Times, 30 April 2003: North Sea salt mine is research paradise
- BBC TV News, 29 April 2003: David Shukman reports (needs RealPlayer)
- Middlesbrough Evening Gazette, 29 April 2003: Mine's role in unlocking dark secret
- Newcastle Chronicle & Journal, 29 April 2003: Trip into the dark in search of universal truth
- nature science update, 29 April 2003: Showers and air-con for WIMPs down Yorkshire mine
- The Northern Echo, 29 April 2003: Minister in deep discussions as new science lab opens
- Reuters, 29 April 2003: British Scientists Seek Missing WIMPs of Universe (picked up by, at least: ABC, CNN, Cape Argus, Hindustan Times, MSNBC, New Zealand Herald, Straits Times)
- Spaceflight Now, 29 April 2003: The search for the missing mass of the Universe
- Yorkshire Post, 29 April 2003: Yorkshire PostScience plumbs new depths in hunt for wimps
- BBC News Online, 28 April 2003: Science in the underworld
- PPARC press release, 29 April 2003: 90% of the Universe is Missing (includes Boulby pictures)
- BBC Radio 4, 12 Mar 2003: Behind the Superficial - Mined over Dark Matter
- nature science update, 1 May 2002: Xenon outs WIMPs
- Frontiers, issue 13 (summer 2002): The search for WIMPs (pdf file here)
- The Economist, 5 January 2002: Money pits
- Physics World, 14, issue 9 (September 2001): Physicists push themselves to the limit (p. 10)
- Physics World, 13, issue 1 (January 2000): Physics gets dark and exotic (p. 13); The search for dark matter (p. 23) "
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfY1gEKv8yo
About that picket fence...
http://planning.northyorkmoors.org.uk/Northgate/PlanningExplorer/General...
An Agenda.
https://www.moongiant.com/moonphases/December/2019
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'Revolutionary Mineral'
Submitted by Captain Black on
One more for the Collection ;-P
https://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/we-learned-many-lessons...
"Boulby mine has announced record-breaking production figures for November...
"The mine hoisted and processed more than 75,000 tonnes in November with "30 hours to spare", putting it "well on track" towards its target of hitting a million tonnes next year and up to three millions tonnes by 2030..."
"Andrew Fulton, general manager and vice president of ICL Boulby, said: "This has been a vital year for everyone involved with Boulby - the workforce at the mine, our distribution and processing terminal at Teesport and all those involved in marketing and developing a growing range of polyhalite-based products.
“It is their united effort which enabled us to reach our November hoist target of 75,000 tonnes with 30 hours to spare.
"Achieving the rapid progress we have made throughout the year has involved everyone being prepared to meet the challenges of accepting new operating techniques and processes, coupled with strong support and investment from our parent company.
“As the world’s first and only polyhalite mine, we have learned many lessons in developing the potential of this revolutionary mineral which means we are in a strong position to move forward in securing the future of our business, providing valuable jobs and continuing to make a major contribution to the East Cleveland area and the wider Tees Valley...”
"Potash had been mined for more than 40 years at the East Cleveland site.
Rival firm Sirius Minerals is building a Teesside polyhalite processing plant and a multi-billion pound mine several miles south of Whitby."
https://www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk/companies/news/908269/sirius-minera...
Down Periscope... ;-))
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhrNgXJ__n8
Mind over Matter.
The Slow Lane
Submitted by Captain Qalypso on
Bless.
http://www.icl-uk.uk/public-consultation/
Something to chew on :-0
http://iclgroupv2.s3.amazonaws.com/uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12...
http://iclgroupv2.s3.amazonaws.com/uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12...
http://iclgroupv2.s3.amazonaws.com/uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/12...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqrvm2XDvpQ
NYM/2019/0764/MEIA
'Neighbours from Hell'
Submitted by Captain Qalypso on
ICL planning documents:
http://planning.northyorkmoors.org.uk/northgate/documentexplorer/applica...
A lack of precision : 2 of 34
http://planning.northyorkmoors.org.uk/northgate/documentexplorer/applica...
Importing MOP for processing
Alternative site for processing in Teesside
Smoke & environmental impacts
Further information required on decommissioning.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKQi3bBA1y8
The Good bit:
"Sirius is actively marketing POLY4 in the UK and significantly, signed a ten-year exclusive distribution agreement in April 2019 with BayWa AG covering Europe, including the UK. The agreement provides for a guaranteed minimum volume of POLY4, ramping up to 2.5 Mtpa in year five. Cefetra Ltd, based in the UK and Ireland and a subsidiary of BayWa AG, is a significant business in the country’s agri-food sector and will market POLY4 throughout the UK. Sirius can provide more details about its approach to the UK market if required.Notwithstanding this, no quantified account of UK need for polyhalite (orother product) is provided as part of the application,beyond a few paragraphs in the Planning Statement. Again, by comparison, Sirius’ submission was supported by a comprehensive report (CRU Polyhalite Market Study, April 2014) which considered the agronomic and economic need for polyhalite. As an important part of the MDT, NYMNPA should request that an equivalent assessment is provided by CPL to ensure that the UK need for the proposed products are fully understood. As a point of detail, we note that paragraph 5.3.17 of the Planning Statement states that production of 500,000 tonnes per year, targeted at the UK market, with a 30% / 70% split between Polysulphate and Potashplus, would see ‘at least 55% of the UK’s potash requirements supplied using polyhalite from Boulby mine...’. This would appear to be a considerable exaggeration, as the 55% figure includes the 175,000 tonnes of MOP that would have to be importedto, rather than produced by the Boulby Mine, in order to produce Potashplus. We also note that, whilst the Planning Statement is based on the assertion that “Boulby Mine has access to a large extent of additional minerals resource”, it is not clear whether the stated polyhalite resource of 600 million tonnes has been calculated by the standards defined by the JORC code."
The landowner leases are up for renewal... P34
I feel a triology coming on ...
http://planning.northyorkmoors.org.uk/northgate/documentexplorer/applica...
Don't spose they do refunds :-0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akvRTybPbBE
Ohm ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_KmNZNT5xw
'Quantum Entanglement'
Submitted by Captain Qalypso on
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/feb/01/like-movie-students-...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/ideas/videos/why-smart-people-do-stupid-things/p07...
"you can’t take it with you."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/01/privacy-campaigners-dazzle...
"Harvey, an American artist based in Berlin, has been investigating surveillance technology since creating cv dazzle in 2011. He told the Observer that dazzle was a technique rather than a pattern. “It has to be a meandering, evolving strategy,” he said. “The lifespan of any strategy seems to be… I don’t know for sure, but one, two maybe three years.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaYTNsS_m2w&list=RD3B8g-eX2w-w&index=5
Start Exploring
Submitted by Captain Qalypso on
https://www.northyorkmoors.org.uk/about-us/meetings-and-agendas
Patience...
http://planning.northyorkmoors.org.uk/northgate/documentexplorer/applica...
Ohm ..
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploa...
The Milky Wait
Submitted by Captain Qalypso on
"The Mine Analogue Research (MINAR) events are held over a fortnight each year at the Boulby Underground Laboratory at Boulby Mine.
This year scientific researchers from across Europe will join those from NASA in the United States and the Kalam Centre in India as they develop technology and science for the exploration of the Moon and Mars.
A team from NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratories will use a newly-created “Mars pond” in the laboratory’s Mars Yard to test new technology for the search for life on Mars.
A model of the Mars Rover will be guided to the site, take samples from the water and return for NASA scientists to carry out tests and studies as they continue the search for life on Mars.
Such experiments are vital to test instruments and methods for the robotic and human exploration of deep environments on the Moon and Mars.
Also during the MINAR 8 fortnight: - A team from Sweden will test a full-size planetary exploration rover prototype designed to sniff gases and map underground spaces for exploration of Mars and mine safety on earth"
Perserverance...
"At a depth of 1.1km Boulby lab at Boulby mine is one of the best locations in the world for underground science – with studies ranging from astrophysics (the search for Dark Matter) to studies of geology, geophysics, climate and the environment.
It also offers unparalleled opportunities to study rare forms of microbial life that live in the deep, dark and salty environment of the mine."
"The remote nature of the mine’s caverns and the presence of microbial life make it an excellent site for scientists wanting to develop equipment for searching for life on other planets.
The Boulby Underground Lab is Funded by the UK government’s Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC)."
"One frosty winter morning, at the start of 1637, a sailor presented himself at the counting house of a wealthy Dutch merchant and was offered a hearty breakfast of fine red herring.
The sailor noticed an onion - or so he thought - lying on the counter. According to Charles Mackay, writing in Scotland 200 years later, he pinched it."
https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/scienceshow/new-discoverie...
Semper Augustus.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGY484EPe5U
"A trial was scheduled for June 22, 2020, with a pre-trial review taking place on June 5."
"They all relate to the health and safety of employees and "non-employees" working with "mining machines and shuttle cars underground".
One charge alleges that suitable risk assessments were not carried out."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHLbaOLWjpc
AATIP
Submitted by Captain Qalypso on
"Nearly 75 years after Roswell, the possibility that we are not alone in the universe is once again the talk of mainstream politics."
https://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/inky-blackness-banter-t...
""It was so new, they were actually still welding one corner of the cage before we got in.
"That struck me - there was a glowing orange light on the cage, as it cooled.
"It arrived at the bottom much more quickly than you would expect a 4,000 ft drop to take.
"To see the size of the tunnels, the noise of the fans, the machinery, to witness something completely different and new - it was an amazing experience.""
"But a miner's life isn't for everyone. Job opportunities across the area were far 'more buoyant' back in the day, he remembers.
This was a time of "bell-bottom flares, platform boots" - and the "Ford Capri 1600 GT XLR". "It's an age you can't imagine now," he says, "you had 25,000 workers at the steelworks, the chemical works.
"The Olefins cracker would light up the sky. "New people would ride the cage to the pit bottom, get out and say 'I don't like this'.
"They'd get back in the cage, never to be seen again.""
Is it Tockworth Beck or the Plantation next ...?
https://www.northyorkmoors.org.uk/planning/Sirius-Minerals-Polyhalite-Mi...
""Badinage is something that keeps everybody going. "It can be difficult, you have easier days and harder days."
"The team spirit and bonding pulls you through."
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/jun/21/do-what-you-love-an...
""There were machines nobody had seen before; the ones today are 125 tonnes and nine metres long.
"One of the things I remember most in the days when we were blasting underground was everything shaking in an unbelievable way. "It was shocking, you could feel the impact through your boots."
As he began to learn more about geology, it became "even more absorbing".
"It's a snapshot, a geological timescale back to the days before dinosaurs."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/21/its-going-to-come-as-a-big...
""The evaporites down there are 250 million years old. "When you ride the cage down that shaft, you take a journey through time, to when everything was just a desert.
"Fluids were dehydrating faster than they were being deposited." The giant seam of minerals mined at Boulby is probably the largest in the world, stretching across the North Sea into Europe.
Germany still mines the same kind of evaporites that ICL Boulby once mined."
""It's a piece of art that is functional, it can be sat on and also provides a surface for a picnic.
"The bait table is a place of community, when the miners have worked their shift and they come back to rest.""
""We have some very capable individuals," Peter adds, "who are making the future of the business their number one objective.""
Do you own digging.. ;-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6-8J93kyZY