{"id":770166,"date":"2023-10-23T11:06:03","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T15:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=770166"},"modified":"2023-10-23T11:06:03","modified_gmt":"2023-10-23T15:06:03","slug":"cleaning-up-australias-80000-disused-mines-is-a-huge-job-but-the-payoffs-can-outweigh-the-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=770166","title":{"rendered":"Cleaning up Australia&#039;s 80,000 disused mines is a huge job\u2014but the payoffs can outweigh the costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Newly announced closures of Glencore&#8217;s copper and zinc mines in Mt Isa will add to a huge number of former mines in Australia. A 2020 study by Monash University&#8217;s Resources Trinity Group found more than 80,000 inactive mine sites across the country.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2023-10-australia-disused-huge-jobbut-payoffs.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Cleaning up Australia&#8217;s 80,000 disused mines is a huge job\u2014but the payoffs can outweigh the costs<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newly announced closures of Glencore&#8217;s copper and zinc mines in Mt Isa will add to a huge number of former mines in Australia. A 2020 study by Monash University&#8217;s Resources&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-770166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=770166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=770166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=770166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=770166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}