The oil industry has also developed remotely-operated vehicles to make trenches for seabed pipelines, which can be adapted for cutting ore, even though it may lie much deeper, at, say, 1.5km down.

并且，石油工业已经开发出可用于海底管道挖槽的遥控船，可以经过改造用来切割矿石，即使这些矿石在1.5千米以下也没问题。

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It has met some resistance from developed nations like Australia in its quest to buy up mining and iron ore assets, but has been largely successful in Africa.

虽然在寻求收购采掘和铁矿资产方面，遇到源于像澳大利亚这样一些发达国家的阻力，但在非洲却获得了极大的成功。

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Second, the US and its western Allies have a vital interest in strategic materials, like mineral and ore, which have to be imported from less-developed countries like the Philippines.

第二，美国和西方同盟国在战略物质上有重要利益，像矿物质和矿石，这些需要从不发达国家，像是菲律宾进口。

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