EVERYTHING to do with mining is impressively vast. It is an industry that makes huge holes in the ground and relies on trucks with tyres the size of houses.

和矿业有关的事情都是巨大的，这个行业在地球上挖出大洞，用车轮和房子一样大的卡车运输。

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These include coal mining, quarrying, oil drilling, and the injection of wastewater into the ground.

这些活动包括采煤、采石、石油钻探和向地下注入废水。

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Nearly a decade into China's rampant commodity-buying spree the bosses of the big mining companies are starting to talk about the growing problems getting all manner of minerals out of the ground.

在中国狂暴的商品购入盛宴几乎接近十年的时刻，大型采矿公司的老板们开始讨论开采各式矿藏所面对的越来越多的问题。

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These include increasing difficulties of mining far below the ground in the key producing nation of South Africa, as well as labor issues that mean higher costs and the threat of supply disruptions due to strikes.

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At that time, a small quantity of US shale oil was being unlocked by mining the rock out of the ground, trucking it to centralized plants, and heating the rock to release the hydrocarbons.

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The threat of a power shortage in the country, and thus a curtailment of electricity needed for mining that tends to occur far under the ground, has been an ongoing issue for a few years now.

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