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  2. World of Warcraft: Cataclysm - Wikipedia

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    World of Warcraft: Cataclysm is the third expansion set for the massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) World of Warcraft, following Wrath of the Lich King. It was officially announced at BlizzCon on August 21, 2009, although dataminers and researchers discovered details before it was announced by Blizzard. [ 2 ]

  3. Outline of mining - Wikipedia

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    The hammer and pick, two basic tools traditionally used in mining for breaking rock, together form a main heraldic symbol of mining and miners. It is also used to mark the location of mines on maps. In other locations, the pickaxe and shovel fill the same purpose. The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to mining:

  4. Automated mining - Wikipedia

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    Automated mining involves the removal of human labor from the mining process. [1] The mining industry is in the transition towards automation . It can still require a large amount of human capital , particularly in the developing world where labor costs are low so there is less incentive to increase efficiency.

  5. Care and maintenance - Wikipedia

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    Care and maintenance is a term used in the mining industry to describe processes and conditions on a closed mine site at which there is the potential to recommence operations at a later date. During the care and maintenance phase, production is stopped but the site is managed to ensure it remains in a safe and stable condition.

  6. Cordwainer - Wikipedia

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    [2] [3] [4] The Oxford English Dictionary [5] says that the word cordwainer is archaic, "still used in the names of guilds, for example, the Cordwainers' Company"; but its definition of cobbler mentions only mending, [5] reflecting the older distinction. Play 14 of the Chester Mystery Plays was presented by the guild of corvisors, known to mean ...

  7. Coal mining in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In 2014, 3.0 percent of the coal shipments from Montana and Wyoming were exported. [68] The 2014 coal exports from the two states of 13.4 million short tons represented an increase of 1.2 million tons over 2012 export levels, which is 0.3 percent of the states’ 2014 total coal shipments of 439.8 million short tons (399 million metric tons). [69]

  8. Proof of work - Wikipedia

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    Integer square root modulo a large prime [3] [dubious – discuss] Weaken Fiat–Shamir signatures [3] Ong–Schnorr–Shamir signature broken by Pollard [3] Partial hash inversion [18] [19] [2] This paper formalizes the idea of a proof of work and introduces "the dependent idea of a bread pudding protocol", a "re-usable proof-of-work" (RPoW ...

  9. Kolwezi tailings project - Wikipedia

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    The project entails construction of a plant to process the copper and cobalt tailings in the Kingamyambo tailings dam and the Musunoi river tailings, which have an estimated total metal content of 1,676,000 tonnes of copper and 363,000 tonnes of cobalt. A Durban company, Metso ND Engineering, was selected to build the equipment. [3]