Noel Kirshenbaum. Greetings. Remember meeting you, was it in Mexico?
The trouble with terminology is that everybody has a different
interpretation. We, of course, mine copper ore, but it is the "copper
mining industry." But then it is the "iron ore industry," not the "iron
industry." And try to get two people to agree what a metal trader is .....
Best. Waszkis
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Subject: What mining is........
> Re what mining is:
>
> There are often semantic problems in making general categorizations.
> Segregation of AS-MINED materials from those which are the PRODUCTS of
mined
> materials is the real issue here.
>
> Helmut correctly describes how an as-mined ore, bauxite, is elaborated
into a
> processed material, alumina. And Martin is correct when he points out that
> neither alumina nor cement is mined -- only their raw materials or
feedstocks
> are mined.
>
> An analogy would be to classify bread as a farm or agricultural product.
> Wheat is such a product, but is bread or spaghetti, being derivatives of
> agricultural feedstocks (no pun intended). Other examples abound.
>
> Correspondingly, is it correct to consider pig iron, steel, or brass to be
a
> mined material?
> As we know, a tremendous number of products are DERIVED FROM minerals,
ores
> or mined materials, but should finished goods or processed, intermediate
> materials be classified as mined material?
>
> Noel Kirshenbaum
>
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