Weight of the world on their shoulders

Block caving has been called the mining method of the future. The present, though, is throwing up some formidable obstacles to development

Rio Tinto/BHP Billiton-owned Resolution in Arizona is among a host of proposed block-cave projects in the industry

26 March 2015
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The focus of the world’s underground ‘mass’ miners shifts from Chile to New South Wales, Australia, next May as the biggest show on the cave-mining calendar, MassMin, moves to Sydney.

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