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Re:Missing radioactive capsule found in WA outback after fra... by defrost on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @02:29AM (#34607554)
Estimating iron ore grade on the fly as recently blasted ore beds are dumped through a load out into train carriages for transport to ocean side processing (further crushing, screening, fine grading and blending) and loading onto shipping.

It's an 800 million tonne per year operation in W.Australia (somewhat larger than the US ~ 48 million tonne iron ore mining figures (IIRC)).

The alternatives are to find something else that can be "shone" like a flashlight through raw iron ore, and | or for the world to consume less steel.

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Re:Missing radioactive capsule found in WA outback after fra... by qikInNdOutReply on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @03:09AM (#34607808)
But the world needs more steel. To build more ships. The world needs more ships. To carry more ore and coal. Because the world needs more steel. Also to build buildings.

This whole "economic" growth is just another bubble ready to pop, similar usefull to crypto in the long run.

Destroyed the planet, for what..

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Re:Missing radioactive capsule found in WA outback after fra... by stefs on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @03:12AM (#34607839)
... but for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders!
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Re:Missing radioactive capsule found in WA outback after fra... by throwawaylinux on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @03:35AM (#34607982)
Anybody is free to choose to go without products made with steel or steel tools if they want to stick it to the fat cats.
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Re:Missing radioactive capsule found in WA outback after fra... by refurb on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @03:43AM (#34608030)
Then i realized the shareholder is us .. .. me in fact!
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Re:Missing radioactive capsule found in WA outback after fra... by peepeepoopoo3 on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @03:50AM (#34608074)
I hope you posted this using smoke signals and not a state of the art personal supercomputer.
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Re:Missing radioactive capsule found in WA outback after fra... by gonzo41 on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @03:35AM (#34607980)
Paperclips - https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/

Be careful.

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