30 points by irasigman 2 hours ago | 7 comments
HardwareLust 18 minutes ago
I saw your title and my first thought was "Why are there landmines in the US?" lol.
SaberTail 1 hour ago
This doesn't seem to be complete. It's missing the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, for example, which should be southeast of Carlsbad, NM. It's a underground salt (metal/non-metal) mine, and MSHA definitely regulates it
nektro 24 minutes ago
I love the idea of a site like this existing but the expanding dots is a really bad way to visualize this.
kenforthewin 1 hour ago
I'm glad it's those kinds of mines rather than the ones I first thought of.
advisedwang 40 minutes ago
This seems to include cement works and other processing plants that have somewhat mine-like output but aren't actually extracting anything from the ground at that site.
irasigman 1 hour ago
Downloaded from https://www.msha.gov/data-and-reports/mine-data-retrieval-sy.... Pipe-delimited, updated weekly by MSHA.
alexchamberlain 1 hour ago
There are 3 mines on Manhattan; is that correct?
leeter 1 hour ago
Based on the info if you click into them, likely no. I would have expected them to be incidental materials from tunneling, but reading the description that's not the case.
Exuma 1 hour ago
How many of these pose asbestos hazards like the Libby mine?