Word: coal
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...addition to banning U.S. investment and bank loans, the new legislation would terminate landing rights in this country for South African aircraft and prohibit U.S. imports of South African uranium, coal, steel, textiles, military vehicles, agricultural products and food...
...career diplomat who is now U.S. envoy to Liberia, to be Ambassador to South Africa. Reagan is also counting on the European Community to implement milder measures. This week the twelve E.C. foreign ministers are scheduled to adopt a package of restrictions that would ban imports of South African coal, steel, iron ore and gold coins...
...that developed, lived for many centuries and was overtaken by floods of sediments that killed the roots," he says. "They must have been killed off relatively quickly for the roots not to decay, and buried deeply enough to exclude oxygen but not so deeply as to turn them into coal. That process repeated and repeated itself over several hundreds of thousands of years...
...part of an industry-wide drive to cut costs, most of today's gold mines are surface, or open-pit, operations, a method used in copper and coal mining. The new excavations can take as long as eight years to start up, but then can handle thousands of tons of low-grade ore daily. The latest mines make use of a chemical technique called heap leaching to reduce costs. The procedure involves the spraying of crude ore with a cyanide solution that absorbs microscopic amounts of gold as it filters through the heaps of rock. After further processing...
...stalwart stance against sanctions appears to be easing. During a visit to Washington this week, British Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe is expected to inform U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz that Britain will join with the rest of the European Community to ban imports of South African coal, iron and steel. Preparations are also under way for U.S. and British officials to meet in an undisclosed location with Oliver Tambo, president of the outlawed African National Congress...