Back in the day, engineers didn’t have many options for moving an object from one point to another in a straight line. These ...

From there it was transported outside the pit to the concentrator by conveyor belt. The mine included 19 conveyor belts (totaling 37,333 feet) to move ore and waste rock from the pit.

The Belt and Road Initiative is a massive China-led infrastructure project that aims to stretch around the globe. Some analysts see the project as a disturbing expansion of Chinese power, and the ...