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Idaho farmers, water and cobalt?
- Thread starter BigBurt
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RusM
Amateur Viking
Idaho farmers say water curtailment order will dry up land, push them out of business
Gov. Little optimistic as water users close in on deal to provide certainty for farmers in 2024
Looks like it's slightly more complicated than giving water to the mine....
Gov. Little optimistic as water users close in on deal to provide certainty for farmers in 2024
Looks like it's slightly more complicated than giving water to the mine....
speed bump
Red Skull Member
I'm confused how they are giving water to the mine and whoever the whiner is in the first video was just talking about Ukraine before he lost my attention. In my 10 minutes of reading the mine plan the part I could see farmers upset about is when they quit leasing out the surface water rights they have. Otherwise it's a small underground operation that until cobalt became really in demand and they figured out how to extract the gold in the matrix didn't make economic sense. About every 5-20 years they do some more development there and might actually do some mining after 60 years of working on it. I didn't bother going to look at their title V permit but based on the construction photos they probably will discharge some treated water to surface at some point.
Very cool that they are finally bringing that mine to reality.
Desert water rights suck if you are the junior rights holder. Particularly if you want to grow hay.
Very cool that they are finally bringing that mine to reality.
Desert water rights suck if you are the junior rights holder. Particularly if you want to grow hay.
speed bump
Red Skull Member
Talked with my sister who apparently knows a bit about this (she works for a ranch and hay Operation) and the mine has senior water rights to most of the farmers for like 500000 acre-ft which they had previously leased out but once they start operations they will use at least a chunk of.
My customer sent one of our CFA drill rigs there a few months ago to drill a bunch of piers. If I'm remembering correctly the piers were going to be for pipe/cable racks.
That's interesting because I never realized how deep a pier might run that was supporting a pipeline.
Again, if I remember correctly they were going to be 24" diameter and drilled to 72' or refusal, which ever came first.
RusM
Amateur Viking
That's either laughable or some serious shit.
It was this rig from a company out of Kansas....
That's either laughable or some serious shit.
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Subsidence.That's either laughable or some serious shit.
I've watched this farming family for quite a while. The equipment used for potato farming has always intrigued me and these guys can be entertaining. They do a decent job explain what they feel is their side of the story. I will admit at the end they start taking about American farmers protesting like the European farmers did and knowing a lot of farmers i think it will take a lot more than limited water to get them to riot.