More Luna Photos

Ricardo and Hector checking out the vein of copper. Ricardo says it all.







Sebastian holding a rich piece of copper.

Little Sebastian enjoying a piece of cow.

Luis and Alejandro on grill duties

Luna Family and Friends

Photo 1: Berta Luna

Photo 2: Leonel Luna

Photo 3: All the Luna Crew and one Gringo at the Parrilladas. Chile had a day off of work so the Luna Ladies made lunch for all of us.

Photo 4: Luna Ladies and one Gringa. We had beef, pork, choripan (Chilean Sausage real good stuff), potato salad, Chilean salad (Tomatoes, onions with oil and salt it's the best)! Bread of course and pop to wash it down.

Photo 5: Ricardo Luna and his best friend Luis. I was very glad to have their help for 21 days on the road. They took their vacation time to spend it building road.

DynOmite

Check out this sweet video that Chase put his life in danger to take. Not really thank goodness for zoom lenses.

Happy Campers

Left to Right
Chase, Apolinario, Alejandro, Leonel and Hector.
Great bunch of hardworking guys.

Top of the World

Love this place!

It NEVER rains in this part of Chile!

On previous trips to Chile we were told that it never
rains in this part of Chile.
I have been in Chile almost 2 months. Raenada and Chase arrived one month ago. The night they arrived in Chile it rained. It has rains two more times since then.
This is the big joke with the Luna Family, our Associates, that this is really not rain but a figmint of the imagination.
In September they say that the barren hills will be covered with blue flowers because of the rains.

Tsunami Cloud

Most days are sunny and warm. Once in a while the mist rolls in and you better find a coat and hat. It is a heavy wet fog.

You have to bring the whole closet with you to work. Lots of layers when it's cold and then take the layers off when the sun comes out.

Copper Ore 7% Not too bad.

Nice copper deposit we found in the middle of the road.

Descending Into the Great Chasm

What a beautiful view!

The Cat is cutting a platform to stack all of the copper ore on. The canyon below will take some time to cut a road wide enough for the big trucks to go down, so for now it will be a service road for the 4 X 4 pickups and mining equipment. We will widen the road as we harvest the ore that is in the roadway.

We will mine the hills side across the ravine and haul the ore in the bucket of the backhoe to the platform. The haul trucks will have ample room to turn around and then be loaded with ore.

The Cat started to cut the road into the chasm but started chocking for diesel because the fuel filter is plugged. We stopped by the shop that owns the Cat and the "Italian" gave us another filter to install tomorrow.

It rained off and on all day since early this morning. It "never" rains in this part of Chile! Right?.... since we have arrived here it has rained 3 times in a month. This is more rain than they have received in the past 10 years.