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Kombat mine is back in townA formerly flooded and shuttered mine in the Namibian desert has come back to life and is supplying life-giving water for farming operations
A formerly flooded and shuttered mine in the Namibian desert has come back to life and is supplying life-giving water for farming operations
May 31, 2022
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Trigon Metals not only restarted the Kombat copper mine in October 2021, it spent $10 million refurbishing the existing processing plant. Courtesy of Trigon Metals
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