Sentences with phrase «open pit mine»

It is of course a massive open pit mine and they do indeed scrape off a lot of dirt to get the stuff, low grade that it is.

That waste, which contains microbes that can make humans sick, is collected in open pits or sprayed on fields as fertilizer, risking contamination of the air, water, and soil.

But more often, workers fill open pits with crude oil and light them on fire.

Maisel's images of environmentally impacted sites consider the aesthetics and politics of open pit mines, rampant urbanization and sprawl, and zones of water reclamation.

For the Los Angeles show, coordinated by MOCA assistant curator Lanka Tattersall, Barney added a new group of bronzes from the series «Water Castings,» using a novel technique of pouring molten bronze into open pits filled with clay silt and water.

It is estimated by the Alberta government that 70 - 80 percent of oil in the oil sands is buried too deep for open pit mining; therefore, in situ methods will likely be the future of extracting oil from oil sands.

Perseus, whose main operation is the Edikan open pit gold mine in southern Ghana, has a target share price in 12 months» time of 85 cents.

The mounded material usually contain slow grade mineralized material and / or waste rock produced from open pit or underground mines.

The recent Presidential election in Zambia, Africa's second largest copper producer, was won by a party which backs the scrapping of a corporate tax on mining and instead raising mining royalties on open pit operations from 6 % to 20 %.

(Microstation v8) grounding & cable tray layouts for largest open pit copper mine.

These locations so far are the COP21 summit in Paris in December 2015 and a blockade of a large open pit lignite mine in Germany.

An ideal solution would be «a modern equivalent of the chamber pot,» said Strash, one that would also tackle the cultural issues of handling human waste and move communities away from using open pit latrines.

Consider, for example, Cerrejón, an immense set of open pit coal mines in northern Colombia near the Caribbean coast.

The only problem with that (aside from the fact that is 95 degrees out) is that she always topped her meatloaf with Open Pit.

As a co-founding Director and Vice President of Bema Gold Corporation, he successfully identified significant open pit type heap leach gold reserves in the United States and Chile, including the Refugio deposit (6 to 8 million oz).

Finnish Meteorological Institute and Centro Mario Molina (Chile) studied the particulate matter composition next to an actively operating open pit mine.

REE mining usually includes open pit mining, which is a source of three major contaminants: radionuclides (including thorium and uranium), dust, and metals.

RECENTLY - LISTED local mining junior Bannerman Resources has entered into an agreement to acquire the majority rights to a uranium exploration portfolio situated in the southern African nation of Namibia in an area close to the world's largest open pit uranium mines.

The Sleeper Gold Project is a former high - grade open pit gold producer located off a main highway about 25 miles from the town of Winnemucca.

Mineralization reportedly extends up to 250 metres below the base of the current open pit operation, which extends to 85m.

I have basic knowledge on open pit mining, on conducting investigations of mineral deposits and undertake evaluations in collaboration with geologists and economists to determine whether the mineral deposits can be mined profitably, on determine the most suitable method of mini...

In the mid-1920s, the first commercially prepared barbecue sauce was manufactured by the Louis Maull Fish and Cheese Co. in St. Louis (the sauce is still made today) but it wasn't until the mid-1940s, when Open Pit was introduced to the food service market, that a commercially available sauce was offered nationally.

Open pit strip mines cover an area larger than Greater Vancouver, and in situ development will effect an area seven times larger than the strip mines.

Kennecott officials closely monitor movements in the 107 - year - old mine — which produces 25 percent of the copper used in the United States — and they recognized signs of increasing instability in the months before the slide, closing and removing a visitor center on the south edge of the 2.8 - mile - wide, 3,182 - foot - deep open pit, which the company claims is the world's largest humanmade excavation.

Corvus acquired a 100 % interest in the Mother Lode open pit project in June, 2017.

The mining arm of Cimic Group has won a $ 137 million operations contract at the Encuentro Oxides open pit copper mine in Chile, in partnership with local mining equipment supplier Emeco Holdings.

New Zealand miner Newmont Wailhi Gold has ended its contract with Macmahon Holdings almost a year early, following a slip on one of the walls of its Martha open pit, which has delayed production.

Whilst underground mining accounts for less than 10 % of all gold mined by Blackham, it produces lucrative, free - milling ounces to supplement production from the Galaxy and M4 open pits.

This may open up toll treating options for Hammer to investigate low - cost, start - up satellite open pit mining operations in the region.

A subsequent scoping study by CSA Global concluded Bawdwin could be redeveloped as a large - scale open pit operation with rapid capital payback, ongoing positive cash flow and low technical risk.

The H4 «starter» project has been scoped as a 42,000 tonne - per - annum open pit operation, which is planned as the prelude to the development of the broader Reko Diq Complex, including the Western Porphyries copper - gold project.

It will operate as a small open pit mine that uses a conventional carbon in leach circuit for gold recovery.

This reminds me of Exodus 21:33, 34 «If a man opens a pit, or digs a pit and does not cover it over, and an ox or a donkey falls into it, the owner of the pit shall make restitution; he shall give money to its owner, and the dead animal shall become his.»

Try searing some ground sirloin and instead of adding tomato paste, add Open Pit, throw in some black olives, mushrooms, cheddar and sour cream.

In 1953 Open Pit expanded into the retail market in Detroit.

The magnificent opening pits lone prospector Daniel Plainview against the very earth itself, wordlessly digging his way to the American dream until his mine strikes a gusher.

Independent films are a hard sell any time of the year, but Way Back's July opening pit it against the flashiest, most expensive, and most mindless fare that Hollywood has to offer.

Freeport owns the Grasberg open pit mine in Indonesia, which is not only the world's richest gold mine but also the world's third - largest copper mine.

Yeah, cold comfort, indeed... This is a Dick Conroy vehicle — but despite the near - monthly press releases, the confidential Rio Tinto info / sample sharing agreement, and the supposed potential to become a profitable open pit diamond miner, to date shareholders have dick to show for it... well, except for this dreadful long - term price chart.

The Pebble Mine, designed to be the most massive open pit mine in history, would endanger and compromise these runs, and could destroy them permanently.

Enormous excavator / loading shovels and trucks used in open pits during the early years are giving way to drilling rigs, steam injection, electric heaters, pipes and other technologies to penetrate, liquefy and extract the petroleum.

From toxic tailings ponds that already cover 130 square kilometres, to fresh water use and the direct impacts of digging 100 metre open pit mines over thousands of square kilometres of boreal forest, the report details the environmental problems and other challenges that oil sands mining poses to northern Alberta.

He pointed out that a top political priority for his government is the gigantic Adani company open pit Carmichael coal mine and rail project in Queensland, which will export its coal to plants in India serving serving 100 million people.

«As someone who has visited some of the worst recycling sites in the world, including in China, I can say without reservation that the worst recycling is still better than the best open pit mine, forest clear cut, or oil field.»