...Jonathan Ewing It has since been removed. In a separate interview, Eriksson, the Wanga site manager whose business card reads “Mineral Invest Director of Trading Africa,” appears to confirm Andersson’s comments. He says he’s told his bosses, including Andersson, that it’s impossible...

... the moment of Mongolia’s independence from the Soviet bloc less than a quarter century ago, vast reserves of coal (including the world’s single largest deposit of vital coking coal), oil and gas, copper, gold, uranium, and a host of other valuable minerals have been uncovered. Explorers and prospectors flock...

... of the country. Unlike other minerals bearing benchmarked prices, diamonds in Botswana are internally valued by De Beers. Depending on the quality of a diamond and the valuators involved, one carat can be worth $1,000, $100, or $1. According to a former De Beers director, Bertie Lincoln, in a rare quote...

..., because we just started working now in the Peruvian Amazon where, together with the Brazilian Amazon, we’re discovering a lot of the potential wealth of the world. It is a huge source of petroleum, a huge source of gas, a huge source of hydroelectric power, and minerals and metals. The same thing...

... guidelines on how to eat in the Third Reich. Germans were advised give up beef, pork, white bread, refined sugar, and alcoholic drinks, and to eat more unpeeled potatoes, rye bread, fresh fruits and vegetables, cheese, and eggs, supplemented with a few herring and a glass of mineral water. As to why...

.... In those years, my people rebuffed efforts by gold miners, multinational companies, and government agencies to log, mine, and build on our land. We also dealt with other kinds of mistreatment. In 1997, a Malaysian logging company rented Udege lands near the Khor River for 50 years, agreeing to pay...

... by security forces working for HudBay Minerals, which owned the Fenix GUATEMALA...

... missing is some good the zone and the methods of extortion. A miners. You will answer to the head of recent graduate often wants to rob or extort the first shift, who will explain to you without understanding the consequences. his arrangement. Finally, I welcome you Money must come...

... with oil, natural gas and mineral exports. But these initiatives risk trampling the rights of large numbers of its people, especially those who live off the land, while destroying the nation's environmental heritage. The stakes are high. Peru is one of the most biodiverse places on the planet. Half of all...

.... Investors complained when Argentina expropriated YPF from under the noses of its Spanish partner, the giant energy firm Repsol. But with what could be the world’s third-largest shale gas deposits, minerals, and large-scale agriculture, few companies have pulled out of the country. Argentina’s balance sheet...

... donesia, a human rights advocate who tried ances arose from political, religious, and eco­ to bring together the opposing sides in a se­ nomic factors, not least from the fact that cessionist conflict has instead fallen victim although Aceh, with its oil and mineral re­ to the violence he sought...

... uary, when the U.S. representative to the exploited Zaire’s enormous mineral wealth United Nations, Richard Holbrooke, taking (diamonds, metals, rubber) for personal advantage of his tenure as Security Council gain, squandering the opportunity for eco­ president to draw attention to Africa, did...

.... Beijing has been creating infrastructure projects for decades throughout Africa including railroads in Zambia, bridges in Mali, and schools in Angola—all nations with vast mineral resources that China covets dearly. Indeed, the diversity of China’s aid projects contrasts with more traditionally Western...

... controls over its ground for world powers competing for its people’s private lives remain almost as suf­ vast oil, gas, and mineral resources. Their focating as they were under communism. ambitions collide with those of Islamic fun­ Moreover, the ruling elites, with their jeal­ damentalists who see...

... recommended by a review panel led by Treasury secretary Henry, instead singling out a “super profits” tax on mine owners. While legitimate in principle, Rudd and Swan ambushed the big miners with class-war rhetoric that guaranteed a public dust-up. Gillard's resulting mess of a compromise reduced the overall...

..., and it would be surprising if it weren’t— indeed it would be wrong if it weren’t.” The Shrine as Provocation Nearly two centuries ago, William Hazlitt, arguably the greatest of English essayists, ana­ lyzed and deplored the pleasure of hating, which he likened to a poisonous mineral that “eats...

... time, democratic processes must be made transparent and accountable to those who are being asked to sacrifice what little they have—their land, the minerals under it, or the water that runs through it, all of which are currently being tapped to feed an economic model that is unsustainable...

... to protect Beijing’s water. While Chicheng is rich in minerals and forestry products, the residents aren’t allowed to fully exploit these resources. Chicheng, one of Hebei’s poorest counties, is less than 125 miles from central Beijng, but because it’s governed separately from the capital, it doesn’t...

... percent of total energy consumption in the United States, and numbers are comparable in many other parts of the world. Our agriculture relies heavily on fossil fuels (400 gallons of oil are necessary to produce 1,100 pounds of meat), none of which was the case even 50 years ago. Minerals...

... the police used “road blocks, surveillance, and policing techniques that had been developed during the Miners Strike of 1984–85 to identify festival organizers and arrest travelers” along the main routes to the site in Wiltshire. To avoid arrest and the impounding of their vehicles, the convoy stopped...