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...covered with his never-flagging pencil enough of charta pura ((white paper)) to placard the whole walls of China, and etched as much copper as would sheathe the British Navy." So ran one obituary for Thomas Rowlandson when he died in 1827 at the age of 70. It was not far off. This recorder of the life of Georgian and Regency England left a prodigious number of watercolors, drawings and prints behind him -- perhaps 10,000, though nobody has ever counted them up -- and there is no catalogue raisonne of his work...
Single malts are the original Scotch whiskies. They are made from malted barley in copper-domed pot stills at 101 distilleries scattered throughout Scotland and are aged for at least four years in used sherry or bourbon casks. When combined with cheaper, less flavorsome grain whiskies, they become the blends that most consumers think of as Scotch. A quality brand, like Chivas Regal, may be 65% malt, with whiskies chosen from 40 different distilleries...
There is no certainty that commercially valuable deposits of minerals exist. Surface rocks contain traces of iron, titanium, low-grade gold, tin, molybdenum, coal, copper and zinc. Gaseous hydrocarbons, sometimes associated with oil, have been found in bottom samples taken from the Ross Sea. But in most cases, says geologist Robert Rutford, president of the University of Texas at Dallas, who did research in Antarctica for more than 20 years, "minerals are less than 1% of the total rock sample analyzed." Moreover, the vicious Antarctic climate would make exploration dangerous and expensive...
...nearly five months a bloody sabotage campaign by rebel landowners on the island of Bougainville has idled one of the world's largest copper mines and terrorized the town of Panguna and its environs. The rebels are seeking higher royalties from the mine's joint owners, an Australian company and the government of Papua New Guinea, an island nation in the southwest Pacific...
...billion, 324,000-sq.-mi. Grande Carajas Program, located in the eastern Amazon, seeks to exploit Brazil's mineral deposits, perhaps the world's largest, which include iron ore, manganese, bauxite, copper and nickel. The principal iron-ore mine began production in 1985, and its operation has little impact on the forest. The problem, however, is the smelters that convert the ore into pig iron. They are powered by charcoal, and the cheapest way to obtain it is by chopping down the surrounding forests and burning the trees. Environmentalists fear that Grande Carajas will repeat the dismal experience...