Yeah. What we're looking at here is MudHoney.
Our tunnel boring machine
for the storage tunnel broke through about just under two weeks ago.
We're super excited about this.
After a 22 month journey from Ballard.
The machine cored into the side here,
right on the mark, right into our Wallingford shaft.
So we're now finished with our storage tunnel.
But the machine looks like it's been through a lot.
It has.
You know, just 2.7 miles of mining is just a long way to go.
But it's done really well. The machine's been incredible.
Yeah, the red stripe has all the paint that's left
from MudHoney
when the machine started back 22 months ago.
So we painted the machine.
We brought MudHoney, the grunge band into name.
It officially had MudHoney on the side.
That's all that remains.
We're basically going to be recycling most of the machine.
The contractor will basically take most the cutter head
and kind of the steel piece that you see here off.
Inside are lots of different pumps and operators room.
Those are will all be lifted out and actually sent back to the manufacturer
in Germany to be refurbished and to use on another project.
And then actually most of the hard metal that you see here
will actually be melted down locally and reused for other purposes.
We did all this work during COVID.
We encountered a very large boulder, a 12 foot diameter boulder,
and successfully cored through it.
We did it as a team. We have a great contractor.
The Lane Construction Company has been great to work
with, has been really amazing to see everyone working together.
The tunnel itself
people don't realize that we're actually going underneath their street,
but when we're working at these shafts, we're here for years
and we really appreciate people's patience.