RE: Interesting16 Dec 2020 11:22
Rio's project is really interesting, its complexcity has spawned a thousand scientific papers. The market has been expecting the copper and gold to come on stream for years and the amounts coming on stream are massive, enough to skew the market. The supply problems now are partly down to the failure of expectations re the project.
Alpala really is a simple PCD, as these things go from a geology POV, there is no chasing epithermal veins, judging where dykes might widen or fail, no massive fault displacement, its been well drilled and its a case of mining out the footprint. Obviously there are the block caving aspects and engineering.
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