Saudi Arabia faces challenges to tap its vast copper reserves
Key among those challenges as the world’s largest oil producer seeks to unlock an estimated $1.3 trillion in mineral wealth are logistics and water supplies.
“We sorta take a chunk of dirt out of the ground, remove the lithium, and put the chunk of dirt back where it was. It will not look, like, terrible. It will be nice.”
Freeport's iconic open cut mine in Indonesia is going underground – nearly doubling copper and gold production and earning $8 billion per year in the process.