World’s only Ammolite mine near Lethbridge to hire additional staff in May
LETHBRIDGE – A 20-minute drive from Lethbridge brings you to what looks like an ordinary mining pit. A few excavators are operating, staff are on the ground sorting material; the hay-coloured coulees and banded cliffs surround the area.
One excavator is positioned at the top of the pit, one about 15 feet down, and another is a further 30 or so feet down, at the bottom.
Each piece of machinery delicately claws less than a foot of blackish grey shale, swings over to the opposite side and gently lays it down into a pile. The shale slides off in large pieces, like a flaky pastry.
Below the excavator, someone has a steel rake and sifts through the freshly dug up ground.