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The primitive mining is illegal and dangerous, but the garimpeiros have ample reason to ignore the hazards: rarely in history have ordinary people managed to gain access to a place where gems are seemingly as plentiful as pebbles on a beach. "They scoop out the gravels, put them in a...
Last month Harry Oppenheimer, 83, whose family built South Africa's De Beers and Anglo American mining empire, came out of retirement and paid a visit to Moscow -- a sign that De Beers is worried and leaving nothing to chance. The company made its fortune on the back of the...
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE "ENVIronmental President"? In 1988 Vice President Bush vowed to combat the greenhouse effect with the "White House effect," and mercilessly attacked Michael Dukakis for his failure to clean up Boston Harbor. But last June, President Bush played Scrooge at the Earth Summit in Brazil. In September...
At the time of its independence from Britain in 1964, Zambia was the richest black country in Africa south of the Sahara. It had $1.1 billion in foreign reserves, plus the world's second largest copper-mining industry. It also had emeralds, other gemstones and immense fertile areas. It had...
The cheerleading slogan for Africa, coined by Tanzania's Julius Nyerere shortly after his country won its independence, was "We Must Run While They Walk." It caught the mood of euphoria and ambition, the dash of social heroism. Now the sense of heroic hope is mostly gone. Vast stretches of...