The infrastructure failure in Valdez was that people in seiner's and skiff's with 5 gal buckets could recover more oil than the combined fleet. The person in charge of the Exxon Valdez was playing a game by taking the old "steamship channel" between Blight is and the rocks then when they went aground they went back and forth trying to get off and really ripped open the single hull. One of the guy's I dove with took photos and I saw them fresh off Pam's photo machine . You could clearly see back and forth movement, zig zags on hull and rock still embedded.
Taking the ore away by pipeline or rail is a great idea but then where will you process it? Nobody wants a garbage dump in their neighborhood much less a toxic waste area. But we don't know how the ore will be processed yet so ....let's see. One thing I have learned from my betters in congress is that if it's a secret it's probably not good news.