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...adventurous than that. Located at the base of towering, 2,200-ft. red sandstone cliffs, the mine contains a complex, multilevel network of some 200 shafts and galleries. Although only a small portion has been excavated so far by Rothenberg's team, which included ten West German coal miners, the maze apparently reaches hundreds of yards into the mountain. Perhaps 1,000 workmen-or slaves-toiled inside the tunnels, most of which were no more than 2 ft. wide and 4 ft. high. The underground network included ventilation tubes and shafts to bring fresh air into the galleries, support...
...Ford's vetoes was his rejection of a strip-mining bill that the House and Senate had been struggling with for the past two years before coming to an agreement on a compromise version last month. Designed to protect Western states from strip mining, the bill required coal companies to restore mined land to its original contours and use, thereby limiting surface mining to areas where such reclamation was possible. Moreover, the bill would have extracted fees from the coal companies (35? per ton for surface mining, 25? per ton for underground mining) to finance restoration of the more...
...toys, shoes, sweaters, suits, radios, electric toothbrushes, records, film, perfume, wigs, even ballet slippers. Ignore the department-store price marked on most items. Swaggi will give you "a real steal." But watch yourself. What you are reaching for is likely to be really stolen goods, hot as a smoldering coal. Vincent Swaggi is a fence...
...covey of U.S. Steel executives led by Board Chairman Edgar B. Speer arrived in Washington. Although U.S. Steel had raised prices by 23% earlier this year, the officials insisted that the new increases were needed to help the company "catch up" with recent run-ups in the cost of coal, iron ore and other materials-all of which have added up to a $20 rise in the cost of producing a ton of steel in just five months...
...diamonds are not Botswana's only friend. Copper and nickel are now being mined in the eastern part of the country and shipped to the U.S. for refining. The mining machinery will soon be powered by Botswana's coal. Mineralogists have found that perhaps 400 billion tons of coal-almost two-thirds of the proven reserves in all of Europe-lie beneath the country's soil. Additional recent copper and nickel discoveries have been labeled "very promising" by representatives of U.S. Steel, and deposits of manganese, asbestos and gypsum have yet to be developed...