Rio Tinto Borax quick off the mark.(RTB strip mining for borax)(Technical)

Mining Magazine | October 1, 2000| | Copyright

Rodney Garrett [*]

The Rio Tinto Borax mine will see the quantity of stripped overburden soar to 100 Mt this year, from 18-23 Mt.

Overburden removal is one of those necessary evils associated with open pit mining. Overburden is described in Stokes' Dictionary of Mining, Mineral and Related Terms, second edition, as "...material of any nature, consolidated or unconsolidated, that overlies a deposit of useful materials, ores, or coal -- especially those deposits that are mined from the surface by open cuts."

The description is apropos for the Rio ...

Related newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles from HighBeam Research

(Including press releases, facts, information, and biographies)

Ludwig Erhard: A Biography.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Historian ; Ludwig Erhard: A Biography. By Alfred Mierzejewski...278. $49.95.) When Chancellor Ludwig Erhard left office in 1966, he quickly faded...has largely been silent about him. In Ludwig Erhard: A Biography, Alfred Mierzejewski has...
Soziale Marktwirtschaft und administrative Praxis. Das Bundeswirtschaftsministerium unter Ludwig Erhard [Social Market Economy and Administrative Practice. The Federal Ministry of Economics under Ludwig Erhard]
Magazine article from: Business History Review ; ...Bundeswirtschaftsministerium unter Ludwig Erhard [Social Market Economy and Administrative...Federal Ministry of Economics under Ludwig Erhard]. By Bernhard Loffler. Stuttgart...Economics during the tenure of Ludwig Erhard, which lasted from 1949 to 1963...
Poland's Erhard? (comparison between Polish finance minister Leszek Balcerowicz and the German economist Ludwig Erhard)
Magazine article from: National Review ; ...minister, offered Leszek Balcerowicz the post of finance minister in late 1989, he asked him "to be my Erhard"--as in Ludwig Erhard, father of the German economic miracle in the 1950s. Did Balcerowicz meet this challenge? Did his cavalry...
ONE glorious weekend in June 1948, Ludwig Erhard, a former market researcher entrusted by the US occupation forces with the job of reforming Germany's economy, took drastic action to revive his devastated country.
Newspaper article from: Sunday Business (London, England) ; ...ONE glorious weekend in June 1948, Ludwig Erhard, a former market researcher entrusted...Together with sweeping tax cuts, Erhard's courageous policies paved the...when Germany desperately needs a new Erhard, the country is stuck with Chancellor...
Erhard's ghost: Germany. (Lugwig Erhard; German leader in 1966)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US) ; ...was back in 1966, when the Christian Democrats deposed Ludwig Erhard and agreed to a grand coalition with the Social Democrats...people in Bonn this week who thought they had spotted Erhard's ghost on the heels of Helmut Kohl. The parallel...
IN OUR PAGES: 100, 75 AND 50 YEARS AGO 1958: Erhard Fights Pessimists
Newspaper article from: ; ...100, 75 AND 50 YEARS AGO 1958: Erhard Fights Pessimists Byline: International...1 Section: NEWS NEW YORK: -- Ludwig Erhard, West German Vice-Chancellor and...picture in the United States. Mr. Erhard is here on a ten-day visit at a...
A Biography
Magazine article from: Business History Review ; Ludwig Erhard: A Biography. By Alfred C. Mierzejewski. Chapel Hill: University...Germany's famous postwar economics minister and second chancellor, Ludwig Erhard. Based on a vast array of primary and secondary sources, Mierzejewski...
Freedom and Responsibility: The Social Market Economy in Germany, 1918-1963.
Magazine article from: Journal of Social History ; ...intellectual biography of several key figures (especially Ludwig Erhard and Karl Schiller) in West Germany's adoption of...Ropke, Alexander Rustow, Alfred Muller-Armack, and Ludwig Erhard, to bolster the intellectual respectability of market...
Looking at past is key to Germany's future.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England) ; ...itself, argues Gisela Stuart. Germany needs another Ludwig Erhard I am a British politician, born in Germany. In the...abroad to put things right. It need look no further than Ludwig Erhard (1897-1977). Erhard was completely convinced of...
The German Economic Miracle and the "Social Market Economy"
Magazine article from: Freeman ; ...by classical liberals like Ludwig von Mises and Wilhelm Rpke...protgs was an economist named Ludwig Erhard. He was appointed economics...making a terrible mistake." Erhard replied, "Don't listen...Eucken, Wilhelm Rpke, and Ludwig

Find more facts and information related to the article "Rio Tinto Borax quick off the mark.(RTB strip ..."