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Mining Trouble in the Philippines

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Dec 07, 2010
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The decision last week by a local official in the Philippine province of South Cotabato to shut down the country's biggest copper and gold project is emblematic of the mix of politics, nationalism, misplaced environmentalism and the antipathy of the Catholic Church that has frozen what in the 1980s was one of the world's 10 leading gold and copper indus…

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