In Honor of the Last Real Miners

As huge mining companies like Rio Tinto announce plans to remove all human workers from their mines, it’s time to honor a dying age of hard working men.

Read Rio Tinto’s “End of Jobs” Proposal

We’ve all read science fiction novels of a future where our jobs were stolen by robots, and for the mining industry, the future is now.

According to Rio Tinto’s chief executive Tom Albanese, Technicians and engineers monitoring the whole process from a remote operations centre 1500km away, will eventually control the mine of the future.

When a couple of Rio Tinto employees can strip-mine the U.P. from Nashville TN, it’s time to ask Kennecott Where are the Jobs?

When one man at a computer can do the work of 40 men through robotics, it’s time to ask Kennecott What Jobs? They promise 300, but with robotics, that number could be greatly reduced.

Learn What’s Happening in Australia

The U.P. has a beautiful history of hardworking miners, but Rio Tinto and Kennecott have no respect for our heritage. The future is a British guy doing the job of 40 yoopers without getting up from his chair, an Australian stealing 10 Billion dollars from Upper Michigan, without breaking a sweat.

With the coming age of robotic trucks, robotic trains, robotic drilling and blasting rigs, and robotic haul trucks. There will be no jobs and no profit for the U.P. just another saga of the Upper Peninsula being exploited by foreigners for financial gain.

This is our homeland, we are all wealthy beyond our wildest dreams, let’s claim what is ours, and make the U.P. the wealthiest place in America through hard work and dedication.

We were real miners. Our metal built this world from the ground up. If there has to be mining, let’s do it the Yooper way, and say NO to foreign corporations who want to steal our resources.