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  1. Care and maintenance

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

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of care and maintenance in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of care and maintenance in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of care and maintenance in a Sentence

  1. President Edgar Lungu:

    The Head of State has assured that Government will not allow a single mining job to be lost and has accordingly directed the Ministry of Mines to ensure that operations at Lumwana Mine are not idled for care and maintenance.

  2. Ric Ronge:

    There's a huge environmental liability around closing some operations, that doesn't stop them from putting things on care and maintenance. That still takes tonnes out of the market.

  3. De Beers spokesman Tom Ormsby:

    Any time these scenarios come forward, where the cycle is challenging, everything's on the table and everything's looked at including the option of what would we do if we had to go into any kind of a care and maintenance or closure situation, nothing's off the table.

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