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by jcrawfordor 861 days ago
The hoist at this mine is 2.5MW, there's typically some ore processing on site, mines end up requiring a lot of ventilation and cooling, dewatering, most of the work vehicles used in deep mines today are electric (and these aren't light battery vehicles but heavy equipment trailing high voltage cables), I think it's very conservative to say that the mine consumed over 5MW when it was fully operational.