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摘要

No one can be unaware of the Internet, which now has an estimated 50 000 000 users worldwide and is still expanding at a rate of perhaps 40% per year. Mining is a worldwide industry in which longdistance communications remain a vital component. The Institution is taking advantage of this new technology to provide an information resource that will be instantly available to its members and other professionals in the industry any-where in the world.