June 1, 2025
Operating Assets

Asset management and operational excellence in mine design

Randy Heisler, Vice President of Metals, Mining, and Chemicals at Life Cycle Engineering, discusses the challenges and best practices of asset management and optimisation in mine design. Keeping operations running smoothly while minimising costs and downtime is a constant challenge across the mining industry. One of the key ways to achieve this is through effective

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Financial Assets

My father-in-law offered the family a “bribe.” We might be the first to take it.

Pay Dirt is Slate’s money advice column. Have a question? Send it to Athena, Kristin, and Ilyce here. (It’s anonymous!) Dear Pay Dirt, My father-in-law is a very old-fashioned man. He lost his only son when he was in high school. It is a family tradition to name sons after their fathers. So he is “John VI.” He

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