Mining, minerals and the material world
The mines, minerals and markets behind everything we build
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Salar de Atacama: Lithium Brine Beneath the Salt Flat
How lithium is extracted from brine under Chile's Salar de Atacama, who operates there, and why water is…
Lithium and potassium · Antofagasta Region, Chile
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Escondida Mine: The Copper Giant of the Atacama
Escondida in Chile is the world's largest copper mine by production. Who owns it, how it works, and…
Copper · Antofagasta Region, Chile
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Deepest Mine in the World: Inside Mponeng’s 4-Kilometre Descent
Mponeng in South Africa is the deepest mine in the world, more than 4 km down. How miners…
Gold · Gauteng, South Africa
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Major Mines: The Operations That Define a Commodity
Detailed profiles of the mines that define commodities, regions and industrial eras.
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Extreme Mines: The Deepest, Strangest and Most Unusual
The deepest, largest, oldest and most unusual mines on Earth.
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Mining & Economics: How Minerals Become Supply
How minerals, mines, markets and national economies shape one another.
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New Mining: Critical Minerals and New Frontiers
Critical minerals, emerging extraction technologies and the next frontiers of mining.
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