Editor's note CHANGING CLIMATE

Ever since the recession of 1981/82, the phrase "lean and mean" has been bandied about by managers like an incantation against evil spirits. And if the mine managers weren't working at becoming lean and mean, they were busy "rationalizing" operations...

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