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A five-year test programme on an innovative mining method that could potentially be used to access high-grade orebodies that are either too small or too deep to be mined economically using ...

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Ali Hussain has a background that consists of a career in finance with large financial institutions and in journalism covering business. Oil sands, or tar sands, are sand and rock material that ...