What about the Bre-X scandal of 1997--when promises of a mountain of gold in Borneo turned out to be a few ore samples salted with gold dust?
Progress continues on a supplemental ore feed system, with the project is on track for completion by year-end and 130, 000-ton-per-day throughput expected by the end of the first quarter of 2012.
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Rio Tinto's answer is a plan to move ore from mines to ports on a fleet of driverless trucks and trains, starting in 2010.
An emotional connection, according to Jim Hardison, creative director of Character, a Portland, Ore.
Use paints free of volatile organic compounds, like those from Yolo Colorhouse, a Portland, Ore.
Hines, whose cellar of some 400 bottles includes meunier, buys directly from a Yamhill, Ore. producer each year.
And ABC's Lost experienced a 53% increase in rentals the week following its 2005 Emmy win, according to Rentrak, a Portland, Ore.
The Hobson plant has the capacity for one million pounds of ore a year, five times as much as it does now.
How much it will cost Fortescue to produce a tonne of ore is the source of much debate in Australia's mining community.
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By 2015 Ponta da Madeira, Vale's private port, will be Brazil's largest by tonnage, exporting 230m tonnes of iron ore a year.
"These things are important because users can never get enough bandwidth and control, " said Craig Johnson, president of the PITA Group, a Portland, Ore.
He rebounded, forming Crown Pacific Lumber with a Portland, Ore. partner.
The company is rolling out a new self-serve sushi joint, Sushi Doraku, featuring a revolving conveyor belt, and working with new licensee Yoshida, a Portland, Ore.
Jim Hardison, creative director of Character, a Portland, Ore.
They introduced the insurance giant to Community Centric, a Portland, Ore. upstart, which contacted car-lover clubs and online outlets such as carjunky.com to persuade members to help promote an Allstate car photo contest.
Despite the fact that Brazil is a major iron ore producer, which gets turned into steel, steel costs 35 percent more on average in Brazil than it does in the rest of the world, according to PwC.
Pangaro likes Companhia Vale do Rio Doce (nyse: RIO - news - people ), known as CVRD, a mining and metals giant that benefited from a 71% increase in iron ore prices last year and a 19% rise this year.
The fundamental model we teach MBAs for thinking about manufacturing is the value chain, a simple model that describes the value adding steps that take a low value material like iron ore and turn it into a high value product like a Ferrari Testarossa.
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The spaceship Nostromo is hauling a dreary cargo of ore back to Earth when it inadvertently allows an unpleasant intruder on board, and ordinary life becomes a nightmare.
They poured in their money, built a railroad to haul out all that lovely green ore and, within a few years, the remote Kennecott Mine, as it became known, was earning them millions.
Ms Gillard has promised a 30% tax on iron ore and coal mining companies' profits, a tax on major polluters to help cut carbon emissions by 5% in 10 years and a broadband network for rural areas.
Ms Gillard plans a broadband network for rural areas, a 30% tax on iron ore and coal mining companies' profits, and a tax on major polluters to help cut carbon emissions by 5% by 2020.
Iron ore rose a modest 4 percent compared to the previous month, which is encouraging.
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China has long had an eye on Australia's iron ore, a vital fuel for its industrial expansion.
"There is an enormous amount of money behind the effort to repeal, " said John Russell, a wealthy Portland, Ore.
It has oil, gold, chromium, iron ore and a host of other minerals.
Steelmakers have been defaulting on their obligations to purchase iron ore, a sure sign production will tumble soon.
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