EDITOR'S COMMENT

Go small or go home?

The general trend of opting for bigger operations, bigger mobile machinery and bigger processing equipment can still be witnessed at most major mine sites

At LME Week, Rio Tinto CEO Jean-Sébastien Jacques said how since the 1960s, the company had “just increased the size of [its] dig units”

At LME Week, Rio Tinto CEO Jean-Sébastien Jacques said how since the 1960s, the company had “just increased the size of [its] dig units”

As miners are facing larger, lower-grade orebodies, it might seem self-evident that concentrator plants, for example, require ever larger pieces of equipment to process more material. At LME Week in...

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