Attached is a photo of the core drilling rig on Harvey Mountain, drilling test holes for the MMG mine.
One of the drillers said this was the fourth hole, and it would be about 1,000 feet deep. Other holes were up to 1,900 feet deep.
This was taken on August 29, at about the 3 mile marker on the Harvey Mountain road.
Don Jordan
(Editor's Note: Thanks to Mr. Jordan for providing this photograph. This past June, the issue of the test drilling on area Forest Service land near Hall Mountain became somewhat controversial, due to both the drilling itself and the way the project was publicized--or not publicized--in our area. To read the original articles from NewsBF on the Hall Mountain drilling issues, you can follow these links):
Click here for the first story, published June 25, 2014
Click here for the second story, published July 2, 2014
(Photo courtesy Don Jordan)