The International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) is a mining industry group that was founded in London in 2001. In September, they released a Global Mining Dataset containing over 8,000 mines and other related assets around the globe. Below is a heatmap of the assets they catalogued in this dataset. In this post, I'll explore ICMM's mining dataset. My Workstation I'm using a 5.7 GHz AMD Ryzen 9 9950X CPU. It has 16 cores and 32 threads and 1.2 MB of L1, 16 MB of L2 and 64 MB of L3 cache. It...