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Then A child's toy became a cheap mine-clearing robot.
Presumably these initial investments allow for a nice arbitrage opportunity by buying cheap mining hardware and simply keeping the lights on while well-heeled clients drop off checks and take a bit of profit.
And with each cycle of growth, and each cycle of financial constraints, we endemically and serially exhaust easy and cheap mines, and then under-invest in finding and opening new ones.
In all, cheaper mining.
He could have bought cheaper mines in Africa and South America, but he preferred Asarco because it offered a stable business opportunity in the world's largest and high-premium market.
Problems began many years ago because Germany's coal cannot compete with South Africa's, which is cheaper to mine.
"If colonies on the moon or Mars become a reality, it may be cheaper to mine resources on asteroids rather than transport them from Earth.
Because the high-sulfur coal had been ignored for so long, the coal seams are thicker, not as deep underground, and thus easier (and cheaper) to mine.
And when it comes to fossil fuels, coal is the easy winner - it is generally easier and cheaper to mine, and easier to transport using existing infrastructure such as roads and rail, than oil or gas.
But the gains would go almost entirely to Western coal-producing states such as Montana and Wyoming, where it's cheaper to mine.
Also, it is cheaper to mine a kilogram of ice on a moon of Jupiter than to go all the way out to Pluto to mine the same kilogram.
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