Miners currently face many challenges, from low commodity prices to the exhaustion of accessible high-quality orebodies and high development costs. However, by drawing on the oil and gas industry’s process of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, miners may have new ways to tackle those problems through the technique of frack mining, says professional services company Accenture project controls consultant Adrienne Ratmansky. She explains that frack mining combines the mining industry’s practice of in-situ leaching with the oil and gas industry’s hydraulic fracturing process.