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Great Deposits
Great Deposits – Grasberg Part 3 – Mining and Engineering
In our first two articles we discussed the history and geology of the Grasberg Mine and it is now time to come back…
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Great Deposits
Great Deposits- Grasberg Part 2 – Geology
In Grasberg Part 1 we discussed the social and cultural aspects of the Grasberg deposit and outlined it’s long and fascinating…
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Great Deposits
Great Deposits of the World – Grasberg Part 1
When creating this series on great deposits there are various criteria that can be used to evaluate whether a deposit…
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Mining Hostile Environments
Mining Active Volcanoes (Surprisingly, we can and do!)
The role that volcanoes have in creating land is obvious to anyone who has seen the spectacular eruptions in Iceland…
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Deposit Types
Porphyry Copper Deposits
Most of the world’s copper is extracted from a type of mineral deposit called a “porphyry copper”. If you’ve seen…
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