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Open-pit mining is a common method to extract minerals and samples from the Earth. Due to being cost-effective, this method is very popular and is used all over the world. Listed are the world's ten largest open-pit mines in 2015. [26]
The mine is the result of a ten-year exploration and construction program based on a 1999 discovery of the porphyry copper deposit. Production began in 2000. The mine utilizes a "truck and shovel" open-pit mining method, with ore reporting to semi-Autogenous Grinding and ball mills, followed by a flotation circuit. The finished product is a ...
It is common for the stripping ratio to be used as an indicator of economic value for an open pit mine. [1] This is because removal of waste is a cost to the mine whereas mining ore leads to revenue. A stripping ratio is commonly used as a quick method to evaluate a mine’s or a design’s value.
The deepest open-pit mine in the world is Bingham Canyon Mine in Bingham Canyon, Utah, United States, at over 1,200 metres (3,900 ft). The largest and second deepest open-pit copper mine in the world is Chuquicamata in northern Chile at 900 metres (3,000 ft), which annually produces 443,000 tons of copper and 20,000 tons of molybdenum. [119 ...
The Siilinjärvi carbonatite complex, [1] an open-pit mine owned by Yara International, in Siilinjärvi, Finland Coal strip mine in Wyoming. Surface mining, including strip mining, open-pit mining and mountaintop removal mining, is a broad category of mining in which soil and rock overlying the mineral deposit (the overburden) are removed, in contrast to underground mining, in which the ...
Starting in 2002, the mine utilised both open-pit and underground mining methods for ore extraction. [5] The site of the last open pit to be excavated was Mt Waruwari. [6] When operating, the open pit mine could move up to 160,000 tonnes of rock material and gold-bearing ore daily, and the underground mine over 2,000 tonnes. [7]
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Construction / Acquisition cost Product(s) Capacity [1] [22] [23] Location(s) Status 1957 Vedanta Resources Plc [24] Ore Mine to Smelter. US$25 million* [25] Copper anodes. LME A grade copper cathodes *Chingola open pit A and Nchanga open pit: 4,500,000 tons of copper ore *Nchanga underground mine: 2,800,000 tons of copper ore