Although it does in fact have a lot of relevance to the modern world: the taxation of palladium and or rhodium exports from the Norilsk mine are informed by it, just as one example.
Some friends of mine in the cognitive science world agreed this could make some sense, as when one is a novice in a field, you have limited working memory about the topic.
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Molycorp, an American firm which in various guises dates back to the early 1950s, intends to restart what was once the world's largest source of rare earths, a mine in California closed in 2002 over environmental concerns and the then unjustifiable cost of correcting them.
Besides a clear disagreement with West Coast rapper Kreayshawn, Harry Winston looks to have decided to ditch the glam-world of high-end jewelry retail and switch to the down-and-dirty realm of the diamond mine.
Gemfields already produces 20 percent of the world's emeralds, from a large mine it co-owns in Zambia.
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At one point, the nearby Climax mine produced close to 75 percent of the world's molybdenum, which is used as a hardening agent for steel in cars, as well as in computer chips and monitors.
"For all the talk coming out of Cisco about adding Old World technology to their Internet products, it's really up to companies like Lucent and Nortel, who actually have experience in the old telecom world, to make it happen, " says Hilary Mine of Probe Research.
China had several competitive advantages over the U.S. First, it has some of the best concentrations of rare earths in the world, including the huge Bayan Obo mine in Inner Mongolia.
As has been done by a friend of mine, Tim Newman, who has been working around the world, in various countries, in the oil business.
Freeport's Grasberg mine has one of the biggest copper and gold reserves in the world.
In fact, the World Gold Council says that mine supply increased only 3% in the second quarter of 2010 while total demand rose 36%.
The new world order may be changing but one thing that has always been a core belief of mine is that marketers have to experiment, adapt and take risks to find out what works in keeping connected with customers.
There was only sporadic mine-removal work, for little money, in some of the world's most unstable places: Mali, Chad, and Iraq.
Since BHP already runs the world's biggest copper mine at Escondida in Chile, the purchase gives it two of the top four.
The actual game is a modified version of the cult sandbox game Minecraft, where players mine resources in a 3D world and use them to build various constructions.
If anywhere was the canary in the mine forewarning us of the disaster predicted in low lying areas of the world if runaway climate change takes hold, it's right here.
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"This work has many real-world applications including seabed exploration, detecting leaks in oil pipelines, mine countermeasures, and improving the performance of underwater vehicles, " he said.
And finally, since the world is a strange and wonderful place sometimes, while writing this piece an email came from some friends of mine with their Xmas gift: a donation in my name to Doctors Without Borders.
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All this is justified commercially by the expectation that this mine will produce 450, 000 tonnes of copper a year, making it one of the world's five biggest mines, as well as being a big gold producer.
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