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Frankly, the number is in the millions of dollars. When you consider that ONE of the off-road dump trucks used to haul ore from the pit to the processing plant is $350,000,and that it will burn $500 worth of fuel an hour, the costs are staggering.

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Wel it takes one ton of copper ore to get 12 lbs of pure copper. Which is roughly $40 worth of copper retail value.

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How much is it to extract copper?

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