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Reopened Desert Mine Will Be Self-Sustaining - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction

Publication Date: 16-JUL-08
Author: Pam Radtke Russell
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Construction has begun in the Mexican state of Baja California Sur on a $1-billion upgrade to a 130-year-old copper mine. When operational in 2010, El Boleo mine will be largely self-sustaining, producing copper, cobalt and zinc from the clay-like ore as well as its own electricity from a sulfuric-acid plant and its own water from three desalination plants.
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