The sinkhole\u0027s diameter has increased to 36.5 metres from 32 metres when it was first spotted on July 30. Read more
The sinkhole’s diameter has increased to 36.5 metres from 32 metres when it was first spotted on July 30, the company said. Still, Lundin described the sinkhole as stable, and pushed back against suggestions the change in size was reason for alarm.
“The media reports of the sinkhole materially increasing in size are inaccurate. On July 30, the sinkhole measured approximately 32 meters in diameter at the surface, 48 meters in diameter at the bottom and was 64 meters deep,” spokesman Mark Turner said on Monday. Turner said the diameter at the bottom of the sinkhole was 48 metres, while at the top it was approximately 36.5 meters. He attributed the expansion of the surface to “small amounts of material” dropping from the walls. “This has actually reduced the measured depth to approximately 62 metres,” Turner added.Article content
Two days after the sinkhole was discovered, Lundin said that it had suspended development work at the mine. “Shortly thereafter” the company shut down the underground mine due to safety concerns, Turner said. On August 4, Chile’s National Service of Geology and Mining, which is investigating the sinkhole and vowed to come up with updates later this week, ordered the mine to shut down, which Lundin said it had already done.
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