History repeats itself on the poisonous waters of the Berkeley Pit.
Timothy James LeCain
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Remember the mines before China buys them all
In 1911, Thomas Edison received an odd gift from some Western mining executives: a cubic foot of solid copper. The aging inventor joked that the 486-pound cube might make a nice paperweight. He kept it on display at his New Jersey laboratory, a shiny reminder that the light bulb that made him rich and famous […]