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Copper Boom Pushes Miners to ‘Holy Grail’: Trillions of Dollars of Waste

Copper boom pushes miners to ‘holy grail’: Trillions of dollars of waste
By Thomas Biesheuvel and Mark Burton

Over the past decade, 43 million tonnes of copper have been mined but never processed. Instead, the metal lies trapped in giant piles of waste rock next to dozens of mines from Chile to Australia. To read more, click here.

Thanks for the share, KE!

Heidi

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