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The future of surface mining

What will the future of surface mining look like? Will it be even larger pieces of equipment running off non-fossil fuels or will it even be a surface mine at all?

Noel Dyson
Surface mining’s future is stuck between a rock and a harder place

Surface mining’s future is stuck between a rock and a harder place

  At the moment it seems very little has changed. If a miner who was there when the first sod was turned at what is now Rio Tinto's Bingham Canyon copper mine in Utah, US more than 100 years ago...

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