MINING
A Framework M for Success Mining infrastructure investment is costly but crucial By Rindi White
124 | September 2021
ining has been going on for a long time, from flint pebbles extracted in France and Britain about 10,000 years ago to Egyptian copper mines roughly 5,000 years ago. The Encyclopedia Britannica pegs the oldest mine in the world to be a 40,000-year-old ochre mine in Swaziland. But no matter what substance is being mined, all mines rely on infrastructure to provide access to the mineral deposit and ways to get it out of the ground. Today’s mines are much more advanced than those early ochre, flint, and copper mines. From roads wide enough to accommodate heavy duty equipment to remote vehicle operations, mines today are operate on the cutting edge of technology.
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