Word: copper
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...following weekend the Crimson traveled to the Copper Bowl Classic in Arizona where it soundly defeated Southern Illinois in the first round only to reverse its role against Arizona two days later, falling hard to the Wildcats...
...last year after the company reported it was sitting on one of the biggest gold fields ever discovered. Rumors first began to swirl on March 17 of this year, when a senior company geologist fell from a helicopter under suspicious circumstances. That same week, New Orleans-based Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold reported what was confirmed Sunday: that there was no gold in them thar hills. Share prices plummeted more than 80 percent following that announcement. When the outside gold was added, and by whom, is not yet clear. Bre-X, which itself hired Strathcona, has promised to launch an investigation...
Chile became the test case for opening the arms pipeline to Latin America. Chile's military, which takes a 10% cut of revenues from the country's copper exports, had the cash to buy 24 new jets. Washington had to act fast if it wanted to be among the eager foreign bidders, Chilean President Eduardo Frei warned Clinton during a February visit. The Chilean military wanted detailed specifications on the F-16 and F/A-18 by the end of March...
...main message is, without question, he is going to Kinshasa. Meanwhile, another branch of Kabila's army was closing on Lubumbashi, capital of the mineral-rich province Shaba. Kabila will be welcomed as always, not least by the Western companies that hope to revive the crumbling cobalt and copper mining operations in the region. "Kabila has what he calls a "commission" set up in each town, especially mining towns, that his forces liberate," says Michaels. "He talks to businessmen, to foreign companies, trying to get the mines up and working again. He dickers his own deals." That was the case...
Such penury seems baffling when viewed against the backdrop of Zaire's extravagant natural endowments. Beneath its vast territory lie 60% of the earth's cobalt and much of the world's supply of industrial-grade diamonds, plus substantial reserves of zinc, copper, manganese and gold. But ever since the prices of metals began dropping in the 1970s, Zaire's economic progress has been frozen. Stagnation turned into catastrophe in the late 1980s, when the cold war ended and the Western powers that had bankrolled Mobutu as a bulwark against communism informed him that his credit...