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- Sustaining capital increased from $3.6 million to $5.8 million following the increased waste capitalization in the West Pit.

If the male is circumcised, his reduced vulnerability to carriage of several STIs means his female partner is less likely to become infected. The female partners of circumcised men are at reduced risk of HPV infection, the main cause of cervical cancer [53, 65–67], as well as Trichomonas vaginalis [68] and bacterial vaginosis [68, 69]. While RCT data were not as clear, observational studies have indicated that MC reduces female HSV-2 [70], Chlamydia trachomatis [71], and HIV [72–74].

Then again, the other scenario is that the vibro hammer causes a catastrophic cave in. According to Lucido, the good news is that the collapse appears to be an isolated event. The bad news? There’s no guarantee that something bigger is not brewing.

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Both founders told me they expect to reap enormous cost reductions from expanding production — activities that involve buying materials more cheaply in bulk and assembling units on automated factory lines instead of building them by hand, as is the case now. Design advances could wring out other costs. “Maintenance is very expensive,” Wurzbacher said. “Right now, if we exchange the filters in the collectors, we have to rent a crane, and that’s a lot of man-hours. In the next-generation units, we have improved that a lot, so relatively small design changes could cut the costs of maintenance by a factor of three.” Climeworks also intends to derive savings from improvements to crucial materials, like the sorbent that catches the CO₂. At the moment, the company’s technology requires that the temperature inside the units be raised periodically to about 100 degrees Celsius to release CO₂ from the sorbent so it can be drawn off and stored. If the process can be done at a lower temperature, the units will use less energy, and the life of the materials should be extended, further driving down costs.

Common problems with boreholes develop much more gradually and result in decreased performance and higher operating costs, rather than a sudden failure.

- Tonnes of ore mined decreased, in line with the plan, as mining activity for the heap leach decreased to prioritize the construction of the CIL plant. Mining for the heap leach operation ceased in mid-December.

By the next morning, the gaping sinkhole was 11 feet across making the entire area too unstable for Vanessa’s drilling operation, including the 220-ton crane and oscillator, to continue.

However heavy rain is not only everyone’s wishlist. Once temperatures go over 25˚C, potatoes stop growing and a sudden downpour can shock them into a vigorous growth spurt. At Pembrokeshire-based Puffin Produce the worry is this will cause their precious spuds to burst or split.

"You can continuously drill without stopping," Renouard said. "This is the only human-powered drill that doesn’t require you to dig down and pull up the soil and dump it out and dig back in."

“The animals are the priority and for now they are all being properly fed and watered. We just have to live with it, though the consequences will be expensive.

An increase in gross profit was more than offset by a 39 per cent rise in operating costs to €18.3 million linked to the seven acquisitions the group carried out between August 2014 and March 2015. Those deals added €4.1 million in operating expenses, the group said.