The 20 mile long “super-tunnel,” to be bored through the granite of the Wasatch Mountains by TBMs from Draper to Park City would make the 6.5 million tons of ore accessible. I would facilitate the mining og silver valued at nearly $270 million dollars. The super-tunnel would also provide water to the Salt Lake Valley
The cost of the tunnel is estimated about 500 million dollars.
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Way We Were: The dream of the Wasatch Super-Tunnel
www.parkrecord.comNearly four decades after it was first proposed, the Park City—Alta tunnel idea was resurrected by United Park City Mines chief engineer, Reed Clawson, in what was dubbed the