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Editor-in-Chief at MINING.COM, writer, speaker. Based in Nova Scotia, Canada.
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Seeing the whole picture: Closing notes from Kazakhstan

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By Cecilia Jamasmie Verified
| Mining Verified
This is the final dispatch in a the Ground View Kazakhstan series. The first lesson of the northern steppe is that it is flat. On the road from Astana down to Karaganda, the horizon never changes; the steppe makes Kansas look like the Rocky Mountains. And flat is also what gets done to Kazakhstan from a distance. Wedged between Russia and China and newly courted by the West, it flattens in the mind into a splotch on a map or a line in a reserves table, which is roughly how it reads from far away.
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Ground view Kazakhstan: Brezhnev’s needles

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By Cecilia Jamasmie Verified
| Mining Verified
Kazakhstan is sitting on one of the largest geological archives on Earth, a Soviet inheritance that could help feed the West’s growing hunger for critical minerals. To make that archive usable, the country first has to win a quieter race: finding a magnetic needle last manufactured under Brezhnev before the data on the tape disappears for good.
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Op-Ed: Acid is becoming copper’s new price signal

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By Cecilia Jamasmie Verified
| Mining Verified
Laboratory setup with copper carbonate in test tube and sulphuric acid bottle. (Stock image by blueringmedia.) The copper industry is focused on the wrong number. While miners and smelters obsess over treatment charges and concentrate shortages, sulphuric acid is emerging as one of the most important variables in the copper value chain. Reports that Chinese copper smelters are buying more pyrite, commonly known as fool’s gold, should not be dismissed as a niche development.
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