The accident has had no effect on the open mining pit at Grasberg, he adds.
Strip-mining, a form of open cast mining, has devastated whole sections of this landscape.
And while we have 14 National Parks, some attitudes toward them are suggesting changes, basic changes in some quarters whereby some portion of the New Zealand public now apparently believes they should be open to mining and evaluated strictly according to various byzantine economic criteria.
The geology in Texas allows for a mining procedure called "in situ" recovery, cheaper than traditional seam or open-pit mining.
At Surmont, instead of open-pit mining, the bitumen is melted out of the ground by injecting steam.
Open-air mining operations in France are also using drones to determine how much materials have been removed from mines.
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Yes, open pit bitumen mining blights the landscape, the process releases too much carbon dioxide, and tailing ponds occasionally kill ducks.
The big prize here is a 20% stake in the Fort Hills oil sands project, an open-pit mining operation targeting 3.4 billion barrels of bitumen.
The 1, 000-acre site has lain derelict since open-cast mining ended.
Intelligence agencies are increasingly interested in mining open-source intelligence, particularly online, but the proliferation of voices, whether on social networks, blogs, or elsewhere, can be challenging to make sense of.
The delays were caused by new Argentine import restrictions, which the company said has hindered its ability to purchase necessary spare parts in-country to keep all open-pit mining equipment in continuous operation.
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De Beers is active in every category of industrial diamond mining: open-pit, underground, large-scale alluvial, coastal and deep sea.
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And countries (generally poor ones) who have the rain forests should be compensated for protecting them, particularly when they are under so much economic pressure to open them up to mining companies.
Newmont attributed the lower production to the processing of lower grade ore from stockpiles as it prepared for a new phase of mining at the vast open pit in the mountains of Sumbawa.
Newmont has attributed the lower production to the processing of lower grade ore from stockpiles as it prepares for a new phase of mining at the vast open pit in the mountains of Sumbawa.
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Newmont Mining is keeping all options open as far as its Conga project in Peru is concerned.
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The search query is also restricted to mining data from friends and open profiles on Facebook, and this is a much smaller pool compared to Yelp.
Wolf Minerals hopes to begin mining at Hemerdon in 2014 and once open, it is believed the mine will be the fourth largest tungsten resource in the world.
Still, the increase at Manantial Espejo was less than anticipated due to delays in commissioning an additional mining fleet that was purchased to accelerate open pit production, Pan American Silver said.
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The most open event hosting Glasenberg was a meeting of the Melbourne Mining Club held, oddly enough, in London.
Sales decreased from 2.32 million ounces in 2007 to 1.31 million ounces in 2008 due to mining in the lower grade section of the Grasberg open pit.
This time, Pandora is under the control of a man named Handsome Jack, who is mining the planet for a valuable resource in order to open yet another Vault.
"The problems are caused by water, mining and a quarry, and there has also been open casting on the other time at one time... but none of these have been resolved by putting draining on the mountain, " he said.
Simply put, Ford would get into the iron-mining business if it were cheaper than buying steel on the open market.
The convention is an opportunity for people working, or invested, in the mining industry to visit booths of miners, mining technology companies and rub shoulders with experts in a large open environment.
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