The source of fortunes is diverse, coming from more than a half-dozen industries including media, household products, mining and education.

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How can mining companies improve education, health care and access to social service to create a better quality of life for people impacted by mining operations?

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Rewards programs, financial education and mining the social graph of customers are useful pursuits.

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Having spent much of the flight time in serious conversation with the Afghan ministers of foreign affairs, defense, finance, interior, education, agriculture, mining, health, and labor and social affairs, almost all of them, my friends over many years now, I can say that the United States and the Afghan governments have never been better aligned and had such seriousness of purpose in trying to reach our common objectives.

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But although overall growth is likely to be modest for some years, there are still plenty of opportunities, particularly in agribusiness and mining, and in catering for growing demand for education, health-care and the like.

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