The stripping ratio deteriorates because you can't have a pit with vertical walls, meaning the waste to ore ratio goes up and economics become progressively worse. At some point maybe a decline becomes viable, all this depending on grade and volume as you go down.
Ann: Mt Cattlin-more repetitions encountered under main pegmatite,GXY-GMM.AX, page-9
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