However, these geochemical investigations tended to be focused on the impacts of mining and mineral processing at a national level and in specific mining fields without taking account of the overall impact on larger hydrological and environmental domains across the continent.

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Rinehart is the only woman among the rough lot riding the mining boom at tycoon level, and none of the others probably have to read much in the papers about how they really should be able to afford a hairdresser or a personal trainer.

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She also said the PQ would add a 30% additional tax on all mining profits over a certain level, which she did not elaborate on.

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Pauline Marois, the new premier of Quebec, made waves in the mining industry with comments saying she would initiate a minimum 5% royalty on metal production as well as impose a 30% tax on mining earnings above a certain level during the election campaign.

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While employment in construction is plunging, export-related manufacturing and mining employment is at its highest level in a decade.

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The meeting comes as recognition that landscape-level planning applied to the biosphere reserve zonation concept requires the consideration of mining activities.

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Justice Hegde had already shown how effective a state level ombudsman can be, and had already exposed massive corruption in the mining industry in Karnataka state.

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From 2012, it would tax mining profits at a rate of 40% after they reach a certain level.

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In 1994, as the Mandela government came to power, Motsepe left the law firm and struck out on his own, hoping to build a business contracting low-level labor like sweeping, where workers use brooms to glean gold dust from the rock surface after industrial mining crews have done their work.

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