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Article: Mining engineers tackle complex projects.
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- Wind Speaker
- Article date:
- May 1, 1996
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For thousands of years, man has mined the earth for its riches. Today's mining operations, from huge strip mines involving the excavation of millions of tonnes of earth to shafts dug kilometres down, are located in all parts of the globe. Engineers who work to discover, evaluate, recover and process mineral deposits are called mining engineers.
The mining engineer develops and applies methods of finding and recovering metals, minerals and ores from under the earth or the ocean floor. The process of mining is complex and can be hazardous. Extraction requires vast amounts of economic and mechanical resources to ensure maximum extraction of a ...