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satmike
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5 large mine haul trucks
We were heading into town today (El Rosario) and saw 5 large mine haul trucks on lowboys heading South. Any one have an idea where they are headed?
Thanks Mike
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bajalou
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Possible Santa Rosalia.
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Southern Baja? 
Old people are like the old cars, made of some tough stuff. May show a little rust, but good as gold on the inside.
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David K
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Baja is still a wealth of minerals and metals.
There has been mining of both copper and gold south and east of El Rosario. The owner of the new Turista Motel in El Rosario owned some of them and he
told me that is how he paid for the motel and new gas station he was hoping to open down Hwy. 1 a-ways... Sadly, we heard he passed away...
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Russ
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My friends just came in today and they saw them too. Happy they passed them while they were on lunch break. Really wide loads! Probably for the mine
in Santa Rosalia. There's a lot of work going on there including a new pier.
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fishabductor
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my house.
They were headed to my house. With 3 large dogs, this household creates a pile of excrement. A Euclid or a CAT 777, 767 can haul 200 tons of dog crap
per load. I figure with the 5 trucks being fed by a CAT 9d dozer and a Hitachi excavator withs a 25 cy bucket it should only take a week to remove
last weeks poo.
Our outdoor poo factory consists of:
1. Daisy-Rhidesian Rhidgeback 80lbs
2. Sieera-1/2 Dogo Argentino/ 1/2 Fila Brasiliero pup 35lbs and only 3 months old. She'll go over 100lbs easy. Google Fila's and Dogos...
3. Indy-German Shorthaired Pointer 60lbs of solid muscle
4. Superfly- Male Cat
5. Jazz- female cat
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ElCap
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Although there seems to be quite a bit of mining speculation and interest in Baja lately, most likely they were heading to the Boleo mining operation
in Santa Rosalia. Check out the website below for all the details:
http://www.bajamining.com/
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satmike
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Thanks, We had to pull off to let them by. I'll bet they had fun going down into Santa Rosalia.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by satmike
Thanks, We had to pull off to let them by. I'll bet they had fun going down into Santa Rosalia. |
for overwide loads like that the uphill traffic needs to be shutdown by the federalies during off-peak (midnight- 4 AM) hours
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805gregg
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Drug transportation trucks, no need to hide anymore.
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bajadave1
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Could also be El Triunfo
A possible new mine over there.
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I met some Chinese businessmen in El Rosario last fall. I assumed they were seafood buyers. After a brief conversation they told me they were involved
in mining just outside of town. I'm gonna have to agree though that the trucks probably belong to a cartel. Gonna have to diversify with all this
legalization talk.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by fishabductor
They were headed to my house. With 3 large dogs, this household creates a pile of excrement. A Euclid or a CAT 777, 767 can haul 200 tons of dog crap
per load. I figure with the 5 trucks being fed by a CAT 9d dozer and a Hitachi excavator withs a 25 cy bucket it should only take a week to remove
last weeks poo. |
http://www.vapoorizer.com/
It works. Just don't ask where it goes.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by satmike
We were heading into town today (El Rosario) and saw 5 large mine haul trucks on lowboys heading South. Any one have an idea where they are headed?
Thanks Mike/ |
I was heading north and had to wait for them to cross the El Rosario bridge - very impressive. I am sure they are for the mine in Santa Rosalita - I
happened to run into the construction superintendent during the yellowtail tournament banquet at the Jungle in Mulege - nice guy and he was saying
that they have secured their financing ($850,000,000) and all permits. They are, as noted above, building a pier for shipping out the ore and
preparing the mine for reopening. I think somebody posted a link for their website. Canadian company, however, the guy I was talking with is from
Idaho. Jim
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Russ
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I just googled "boleo mine" there's lots of stuff to choose from.
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They are at the mine in Santa Rosalia
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just a thought.
why does everyone get all worked up about a mine near cabo and brush off the one near rosalia? a mine is a mine, right?
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David K
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I bet it is beacuse a mine has already been at Santa Rosalia for over 100 years, so how much 'uglier' could it get with new mining?
The only issue that these Todos Santos or Cabo folks don't know is the oldest mines in California are right in the area... See Real de Santa Ana and
El Triunfo, etc. (Jack Swords has great photos)... It just is with the tropical weather down there, the plants hide it all better...
Or MAYBE because THEY live near there and not near Santa Rosalia... It is the old "not in my backyard" stuff ????
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Barry A.
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I love active mines--------they have their own beauty, in an industrial sorta way, like a city does. My daughter lives in Herriman, Utah in a new
developement, and her out the front door viewshed is the HUGE Bingham Canyon Copper mine tailings------incredible with the morning light and all the
bright and varied colors----I never fail to be inspired by that site, and they love it also. 
Barry
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Is the Santa Rosalia mine open-pit or underground?
Don't believe everything you think....
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