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New Mining Technology采矿新技术李明Mining technology: scratching the surface采矿技术:刻画(停留在)表面Mining is going through a rapid and profound transformation. It is becoming a global industry, increasingly dominated by a radically shrinking number of global mining companies. 采矿业正在经历一个快速而深刻的变革。受到全球矿业公司数目急剧萎缩(不断减少的趋势)的支配/控制,采矿业正在变成一个全球性的行业/产业。 Paradoxically, mining technology is not developing at anything like the same speed, even though some significant changes have taken place. Because mining is a global industry, its technologies are rapidly transferred between countries and there is not the same urgent competitive incentive to develop proprietary technologies that one finds in many other industries.proprietary专利的/专利权的/私有的;incentive 刺激性的/鼓励性质的/诱发的奇怪的是，采矿技术并没有以同样的速度发展，即使已经发生了一些重大的变化。由于采矿是一项全球性的行业，其技术正在国家之间快速地转让，而且并没有像在其他许多行业中同样急迫的竞争去激励其开发专利技术。 Currently, mining companies are putting far more emphasis on finding new, higher-grade ore deposits worldwide than finding better ways to mine them. Demand for metals and minerals is up, and rising; so are prices. 当前，矿业公司更加注重于在全球范围内寻找新的高品位的矿床而不是去寻找更好的方法去开采它们。对金属及矿物的需求量已经很大了,并且一直在增加/升高，同样它们的价格也在提高。 To some extent, the mining companies have actually withdrawn from the task of technological innovation as they focus on the urgent immediate goal of increasing production to keep up with demand. 在一定程度上，矿业公司实际上已经撤消了科技创新的目标，因为它们把注意力集中在迫切的增加生产满足需求的直接目标上了。 keep up with跟上Further down the road, however, developing technology will not play as important a role in all sectors of mining as it has in the past. Mining may not be the oldest profession, but is possibly the oldest industry – the earliest known mine dates back 43,000 years. Technological progress has always been the key to keeping mineral depletion and mineral prices in balance.再这样下去的话，无论如何,在矿业各方面发展技术不会象以前那样发挥同等重要的作用了。矿业或许不是最老的职业，但可能是最老的行业—已知最早的矿可以追溯到43，000年前。科技进步始终是矿石损耗和矿石价格保持平衡的关键。Since the early 1900s, the National Materials Advisory Board in the U.S. points out, a relentless search has been un