The first part of what has gone wrong here is that in order to stop these few militias from mining these metals a system has been proposed, then legislated into law, which insists that everyone in the world must track, and be able to prove that they have tracked, where their supplies of these minor metals come from.
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TOHL, a start-up that produces flexible piping that can be deployed from helicopters to distribute water in difficult-to-reach areas or disaster zones, says it has spent the money on things such as testing its new system with a Chilean mining company and acquiring a patent.
She needs the backing of state governments for contentious planned reforms: a national school curriculum, changes to the financing of the health system and a tax on mining profits.
With its combination of dangerous mining and heavy-industry jobs and a legal system that makes it hard to overturn generous verdicts--appeals go straight to the state Supreme Court, which can accept or reject them as it pleases--West Virginia ranked 50th for the third year in a row in the Chamber survey.
Big Blue is hooking up with DeCode (nasdaq: DCGN - news - people ) in a pioneering three-year deal to jointly sell an integrated computer system that combines DeCode's unique gene-mining software, which sleuths out genetic risk factors for diseases, with IBM's (nyse: IBM - news - people ) servers and database software.
The system has been developed with the Institute of Materials Minerals and Mining, an organisation that develops materials technologies.
The NYT points out that, if the suit continues to make its way through the court system, IMDb will be forced to reveal the tricks of its data-mining and exactly how it gathers information about the movie-magic-making people in its database.
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The U.S. health care system is the worst economic sector within the U.S. budget behind the mining industry, and it's got to be extremely frustrating.
Motsepe concedes he benefited from the system yet says that his success was no handout, as he began building his mining business before the laws started taking effect in 2005.
The reefs, the second biggest system in the world after Australia's Great Barrier Reef, are under threat from nickel mining on New Caledonia, Green groups say.
The new system is suitable for numerous industry sectors including highway transportation, marine, rail and remote industries such as mining and distributed power generation.
Instead, Target has a central system where all data is analyzed and pushed back out to support day-to-day operations, mining purchasing data, tying it to specific individuals and using algorithms to predict future outcomes.
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