STRABAG Commences Expanded € 1 bn Contract for UK Mine
The title of this post is the same as that of this article on Tunnel Business Magazine.
The article gives a good description of the scope of Sirius Minerals’s York Potash project and their massive mine under the Yorkshire Moors.
- The tiunnel to bring the polyhalite to Wilton is nearly forty kilometres long.
- Three tunnel boring machines will be used.
- It is the largest polyhalite deposit in the world.
- The conveyor in the tunnel will handle twenty million tonnes of product a year.
The Wikipedia entry for Sirius Minerals, says this about the project.
This will deliver a £2.3 billion annual contribution to the UK’s GDP, £2.5 billion of annual exports which represents a 7% decrease in the UK’s trade deficit and 2,500 direct and indirect production jobs as well as over 2,000 jobs during construction.
I doubt, there will be few projects in the UK in the next twenty years, which wil contribute so much!
Looks like the project is now in the balance – https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/rinehart-backed-sirius-minerals-on-the-brink-after-bond-fail-20190811-p52fys.html
Comment by Brian Armitage | August 11, 2019 |
I had the unofficial briefing on what was under the hills fifty years ago and it’ll go all the way, one way or another!
Comment by AnonW | August 12, 2019 |