It said it will follow Afghan law to ensure children don't work in its mines.
So my colleagues in the mines wouldn't talk to me about what was happening because of her, and the police wouldn't talk to her because of me.
The Control Arms coalition, which represents about 100 organizations worldwide campaigning for a strong treaty, and diplomats from countries that support them, said this wouldn't cover hand grenades and mines.
Because he couldn't afford to operate even small mines, he closed them all, shrank his Denver office to 14 people and decided to emulate a couple of larger, royalty-based rivals.
"If there were no mines, we wouldn't have left our land, " says Jose Chingal, who fled his home in the Magui indigenous reservation.
Abdul Rehman Shahid, a member of parliament from Bamiyan Province, couldn't confirm whether children worked in those mines, but added that the government recently enforced a ban on transporting coal there.
It's going to have a huge impact on mining commodities - several coal mines are under water and some won't be operational for months.
As it turned out, the Germans laid mines, all right, but they didn't set them off because they were caught sitting on them.
But experts say there are land mines out there, and tests you don't want to have, because the results could make it tough for you to get insurance later.
Bigger operators don't have the luxury of halting production: Many of the newer oil sands projects are not the typical open strip mines, rather they inject steam into the ground to slowly melt the bitumen out of the sands.
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