The Dirt in the New Machine. / Blaine Harden.
by Harden, Blaine; SIRS Publishing, Inc.
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BookSeries: SIRS Enduring Issues 2002Article 78Global Issues. Publisher: New York Times Magazine, 2001ISSN: 1522-3221;.Subject(s): Dirt | Miners | Mines and mineral resources | Natural resources -- Congo (Democratic Republic) | Tantalum | Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- Civil War, 1996-DDC classification: 050 Summary: "High-Tech corporations like Sony and Nokia can't make their products--or profits--without coltan, a dense black mud dug by hand, one pail at a time, from the lawless rain forests of central Africa. Welcome to the preindustrial side of the global economy." (NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE) This article describes how coltan is mined from the war-torn region of central Africa.
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Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2002.
Originally Published: The Dirt in the New Machine, Aug. 12, 2001; pp. 34-39.
"High-Tech corporations like Sony and Nokia can't make their products--or profits--without coltan, a dense black mud dug by hand, one pail at a time, from the lawless rain forests of central Africa. Welcome to the preindustrial side of the global economy." (NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE) This article describes how coltan is mined from the war-torn region of central Africa.
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