Tailings dam of largest open pit copper mine in Canada is safe: Teck
On April 8, a line spilled 850,000 litres of process water
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BSGR sues George Soros over loss of Guinea iron project
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Dominion says no contact with Washington Corp after $1.1bn takeover bid
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Gold bull McEwen says price rally has just begun
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Chile’s Codelco sets up lithium subsidiary
The unit is expected to help speed up the approval of legislation that allows the exploration and exploitation of the country’s vast lithium deposits.
BREAKING BAD: Rockbreaking equipment does the bull work underground
When it comes to large, unwieldy rocks, mines and quarries deploy rockbreakers, which can be visualized as the big guns that serve as a kind of first assault in the ground war between rock and machine.
