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He was the love of my life.
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It rains like the dickens
in these mountains...
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butyou won't see any streams
running down them.
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So where does the water go?.
:48:18
Whatyou're looking at
is honeycombed with hundreds...
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maybe thousands of mine shafts.
:48:26
When you stop
pumping the water out...
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over time those holes
fill up top to bottom...
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till there's nowhere else
for it to go.
:48:35
A huge pressure builds up
looking for an outlet.
:48:39
In 1943...
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four miners broke a pick hole...
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in a wall to an adjacent area...
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that hadn't been worked
in 20 years.
:48:51
Water exploded
out ofthat wall...
:48:54
drove those four fellas
and their equipment...
:48:57
back through the shaft they'd dug,
out into the main tunnel...
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that Newhouse had built
to service the mine...
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blasted through an opening...
:49:07
and blew the water clear across
the river to the other side.
:49:14
For three days, water blasted out
ofthat mountain-
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timber, tracks, loose rocks,
half-ton ore cars...
:49:23
flying through the air
like theywere toys.
:49:28
You know, we think
we can wound this planet.
:49:33
We thinkwe can cut costs
and stick the money in our pockets...
:49:37
and just walk awaywith it.
:49:40
But someday the bill comes due.
:49:45
This oreyou're looking at...
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assays out at about
an ounce and a halfa ton...
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which can be
worth yourwhile...
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depending on how much it costs you
to get it out ofthe ground.