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  2. Asteroid mining - Wikipedia

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    Asteroid mining is the hypothetical extraction of materials from asteroids and other minor planets, including near-Earth objects. [1] Notable asteroid mining challenges include the high cost of spaceflight, unreliable identification of asteroids which are suitable for mining, and the challenges of extracting usable material in a space environment.

  3. Tailings - Wikipedia

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    Pollution. In mining, tailings or tails are the materials left over after the process of separating the valuable fraction from the uneconomic fraction ( gangue) of an ore. Tailings are different from overburden, which is the waste rock or other material that overlies an ore or mineral body and is displaced during mining without being processed.

  4. Mining - Wikipedia

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    Mining. Mining of sulfur from a deposit at the edge of Ijen 's crater lake, Indonesia. Mining is the extraction of valuable geological materials and minerals from the surface of the Earth. Mining is required to obtain most materials that cannot be grown through agricultural processes, or feasibly created artificially in a laboratory or factory.

  5. AstroForge - Wikipedia

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    AstroForge is an American aerospace company founded by Matthew Gialich and Jose Acain on January 10, 2022, located in Huntington Beach, California. The company develops commercial asteroid mining technologies. [1] [2] As of 2024, no commercialized efforts at asteroid mining have yet to be successful, but a number of asteroid sample-return ...

  6. New Mining Alliance Targets Copper Exploration In Arizona ...

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    May 10, 2024 at 8:10 AM. New Mining Alliance Targets Copper Exploration In Arizona, New Mexico, And Utah. Mining leader BHP (NYSE: BHP) has partnered with Ivanhoe Electric (NYSE: IE, )) to explore ...

  7. Harmony Gold (mining) - Wikipedia

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    Website. www.harmony.co.za. Harmony Gold is the largest gold mining company in South Africa. Harmony operates in South Africa and in Papua New Guinea. The company has nine underground mines, one open-pit mine and several surface operations in South Africa. In Papua New Guinea, it has Hidden Valley, an open-pit gold and silver mine and a 50% ...

  8. Operation Praying Mantis - Wikipedia

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    56 killed. 5 ships sunk. Operation Praying Mantis was the 18 April 1988 attack by the United States on Iranian naval targets in the Persian Gulf in retaliation for the mining of a U.S. warship four days earlier. On 14 April, the American guided missile frigate USS Samuel B. Roberts struck a mine while transiting international waters as part of ...

  9. Operation Pocket Money - Wikipedia

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    Operation Pocket Money was the title of a U.S. Navy Task Force 77 aerial mining campaign conducted against the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) from 9 May 1972 (Vietnamese time), during the Vietnam War. Its purpose was to halt or slow the transportation of supplies and materials for the Nguyen Hue Offensive (known in the West as ...