Tellurium, an essential component in photovoltaic solar cells, is about to be extracted as a byproduct of copper smelting at […]
Tellurium recovery from copper smelting at Rio Tinto’s Bingham Canyon (Kennecott) Mine Read More »
Uranium With an increasing global interest shift away from fossil fuel energy production, nuclear power has become an appealing option
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What is Block Caving? Block (gravity) caving is a bulk underground mining method, which allows large low-grade deposits to be
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Like gold, diamonds were originally recovered from alluvial deposits. However, unlike gold, the actual mining of diamonds from source deposits
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All the world’s Banded Iron Formations appear to have been formed by an unusual, one-off event. With many types of
Iron Deposits – Banded Iron Formations (BIF) Read More »
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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“Nurse or teacher?”, was the laconic question as I joined the barbeque. “I’m a geologist, at Zinc Corp”, I countered
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