There are mountains of iron ore and copper covering parking lots and spilling over into the streets.

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Thus all those mountains of copper oxide out there (and there are many, quite literally, mountains of copper oxide) became copper ore instead of dirt.

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Newmont attributed the lower production to the processing of lower grade ore from stockpiles as it prepared for a new phase of mining at the vast open pit in the mountains of Sumbawa.

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Newmont has attributed the lower production to the processing of lower grade ore from stockpiles as it prepares for a new phase of mining at the vast open pit in the mountains of Sumbawa.

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