U.K. developers of what would be one of the world’s largest potash fertilizer mines hope to start construction soon in the North York Moors, which is an area officially said to contain “an amazing wealth and variety of beauty.”
The $3.6-billion project, near Whitby, will include two 1,500-meter-deep, 9.5-m-dia shafts. One shaft will provide access, while the other will raise up to 20 million tonnes a year of potash to a 37-kilometer-long, 4.1-m-dia delivery tunnel to an export terminal at a harbor near Middlesbrough.