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Mining’s Dirty Secret Won’t Survive a Changing Climate
Factor in what happens when iron ore is turned into steel, and that green image can quickly turn rusty.
Steelmaking isn’t so green.
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Can mining be green?
That’s certainly the ambition of some of the biggest companies in the sector. Rio Tinto Group last year became the first major miner to stop digging up coal altogether. Glencore Plc, historically one of the commodity’s most vocal boosters, has promised to cap production at current levels.