Word: coppers
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...more pollution. Feng's younger brother Bo, also one of China's leading VCs, advised him against an investment. "It didn't look like a winner," admits Feng. But with his guidance, Dongjiang now boasts clients such as IBM, bringing in an average of $1 million a month, extracting copper from chipmaking by-products and detoxifying what's left over free of charge...
...more pollution. Feng's younger brother Bo, also one of China's leading VCs, advised him against an investment. "It didn't look like a winner," admits Feng. But with his guidance, Dongjiang now boasts clients such as IBM, bringing in an average of $1 million a month, extracting copper from chipmaking by-products and detoxifying what's left over free of charge...
There's more to tattooing than pinpricks. The first detailed analysis of tattoo inks, presented at the American Chemical Society meeting last week, found copper, iron, lead, lithium, chromium and strontium. Rub-ons, anyone...
...coronation of Ona might appear comic, but it is a sinister scene in the tragedy that looms over the beautiful but ravaged island. For more than 14 years, Ona and his band of rebels in the Bougainville Revolutionary Army have occupied a no-go zone around the vast Panguna copper mine. The villagers who fall inside his territory are denied essential services, and face a fragile security situation. Blundering by corporate jet into this dysfunctional society came an eccentric Australian businessman. His arrival brought hollow promises of multi-million-dollar business deals and benign health programs, and coincided with Musingku...
...island traces its troubles to protests in 1989 against Bougainville Copper Limited's mine. A local landowner, Ona led others in demands for compensation and tighter environmental controls. The P.N.G. military was brought in to suppress the revolt, and the conflict evolved into a secessionist rebellion that eventually claimed the lives of between 12,000 and 15,000 people, according to the U.N. While other elements of the original independence fighters signed a ceasefire in 1998, Ona has vowed to occupy the mine and surrounding regions until Bougainville is granted independence...