The other method of rat-hole mining, known as box-cutting, involves creating a rectangular aperture ranging from 10 to 100 square meters and then digging a vertical pit 100 to 400 feet deep. When the ...

British Steel says no final decisions have been made on its future operations, as reports suggest it is abandoning Teesside furnace plans to build entirely in Scunthorpe. The Financial Times and ...

It is possible that these mines – each with a network of narrow tunnels branching out from the wall of a vertical pit – could be interconnected. The three mines were believed to have been ...

The old pit furnaces have been discarded and a battery of the "Ideal" type installed. Six heats a day are possible from each furnace, and an av-erage of twenty-five heats per crucible is ...

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There are bones of animals with cut marks, indicating that they were butchered. These bones are being analysed. The team has excavated an 18-metre vertical pit to unearth other details of this market, ...

Some of the common reasons why companies go through vertical FDI include lowering the cost of raw materials or taking advantage of cheaper labor. Foreign direct investment occurs when an entity ...

Another type of technique called box-cutting involves a process where a rectangular opening is made, varying from 10 to 100 sq metre. Then through that opening a vertical pit is dug, 100 to 400 feet ...

The coal seam in the hills of Meghalaya is very thin, less than 2 m in most cases,” he said. In the other type of rat-hole mining, called box-cutting, a rectangular opening is made, varying from 10 to ...

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GFG says while the blast furnace is running at half its capacity, the resumption of steelmaking is a "significant milestone" in its efforts to "rescue the plant". Whyalla's embattled steelworks ...