{"id":126228,"date":"2021-08-14T19:23:01","date_gmt":"2021-08-15T02:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/laser-mining-the-light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel"},"modified":"2021-08-14T19:23:01","modified_gmt":"2021-08-15T02:23:01","slug":"laser-mining-the-light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/laser-mining-the-light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel","title":{"rendered":"Laser mining \u2013 the light at the end of the tunnel?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9Qfk1vaTSCI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Laser mining would allow for a no explosive option and not need huge machines increasing output as well. Also lasers could make more precise cuts rather than blades which would never get dull.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The application of the \u201cGraduated Optical Colimator\u201d (GOC) for the mining industry consists of a one-kilowatt optical power fiber laser to selectively spall igneous geological formations containing narrow veins of precious metals.<\/p>\n<p>Merger said the prototype addresses key issues like mining using less explosives, chemicals and waste.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve been working at this problem for five or six years now \u2013 and we\u2019ve discovered that a lot of laboratory research has been done in the private sector and in the government sector,\u201d Gary Mladjan, Merger Mines\u2019 VP, engineering and technology told MINING.COM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laser mining would allow for a no explosive option and not need huge machines increasing output as well. Also lasers could make more precise cuts rather than blades which would never get dull. The application of the \u201cGraduated Optical Colimator\u201d (GOC) for the mining industry consists of a one-kilowatt optical power fiber laser to selectively [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,38,1490],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-engineering","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}