Already the Turquoise Hill, where the colour of the soil first betrayed the presence of copper to prospectors decades ago, has vanished.

ECONOMIST: Booming Mongolia

Hundreds of thousands of people cheered him as he toured America in 1824, and when he died a decade later, he was buried in American soil that he had gathered at Bunker Hill.

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