The ongoing saga of the huge - and hapless - Ok Tedi mine

The mineral specimens were magnificent -- massive magnetite- chalcopyrite, boulder-sized. The geologists had just brought them in from the field, 2000 miles by foot, helicopter and 'plane. It was late 1968, spring in the southern hemisphere, and I was visiting...

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