Kennecott's gravy train

The first year of mining the open-pit Ridgeway deposits in So Carolina was, to borrow a term employed by Engineering Manager Peter Evans, "gravy." The soft oxides allowed blasthole spacings of 20 ft. (six metres) rather than the 14 ft....

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