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I shall call it megamine

MERGING the Hunter Valley coal operations of Glencore Xstrata and Rio Tinto makes perfect sense to <i>Hogsback</i> because cost cutting is what happens in tough times. However, the question really is not about merging a few mines. It is about creating one mine.

Tim Treadgold
I shall call it megamine

If the idea of one mine in the Hunter sounds ridiculous to some readers then they had best prepare themselves for what grew out of the iron ore price crash of the 1990s. Back then, when a tonne of...

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