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As one former mining manager in the region told me, “The aim was always simple: get the assets out of the ground and out of the country as cheaply and with as little fuss as possible.”
Consider diamond mining, Namibia’s biggest industry and export.
The NamDeb mining corporation, a joint venture between the government and De Beers, dominates the industry.
But while the government wants to move beyond low-skilled mining into higher-value processing, De Beers has balked, because it already has well established, cost-effective cutting operations abroad.
Similarly, at the government’s nudging, the mining conglomerate Anglo-American developed a zinc-processing operation at its new Skorpion mine in the Namib desert, creating more skilled jobs for locals.
A mining town becomes a ghost town when the mine closes, because the grocery store, the pharmacy, and the movie theater no longer have the capacity to buy the “imported” food, medicine, and films they need.
In the United States, around 4% of the population in 1950 was employed in agriculture, 38% in industry (including mining, construction, and manufacturing), and 58% in services.
And, in a media landscape where even politicians rely on data mining and neuroscience to craft messages based on voters’ state of mind, it is hard to separate truth from falsehood.
And, because space exploration requires communications and control over vast distances, some of the applications could also enhance South Africa’s lucrative mining sector; after all, controlling machines under the ground is similar to doing so in deep space.
While the recent labor unrest has complex origins, it boils down to South Africa’s reliance on the mining industry, which has underpinned its development into the continent’s richest economy and accounts for one-fifth of GDP.
And state-controlled firms’ share of global mining production is already roughly one-quarter – and rising.
Yet, as highlighted at the recent conference “Mining Dialogue 360 Degrees,” youth unemployment has reached unprecedented levels, and real inward investment for mining is close to zero – while inflows in neighboring Zimbabwe are rising steadily.
To take an extreme example, labor productivity in Malawi’s mining sector matches that of the United States economy as a whole.
If only all of Malawi’s workers could be employed in mining, Malawi would be as rich as the US!
Of course, mining cannot absorb so many workers, so the rest of the Malawian labor force must seek jobs in considerably less productive parts of the economy.
Neither the left nor the right looked after the interests of the old working class in busted mining towns, rusting ports, and decaying smokestack cities.
Poison-Proofing ChinaSTANFORD – Last January, China’s environmental authorities barely averted the contamination of nearly three million people’s drinking water after a mining company dumped cadmium – a toxic heavy metal used in the manufacture of batteries, paint, solder, and solar cells – into the Longjiang River.
Income disparities have widened, owing in part to the continuation of distortionary policies in various sectors, including the domination of China’s four large state-owned banks, the near-zero royalty on mining, and monopolies in major industries, including telecommunications, power, and financial services.
It has had a crucial role in the effort to regularize the mining industry so that the DRC’s mineral wealth may be used to improve living standards, rather than only to enrich local warlords and the foreign governments and corporate interests allied with them.
We subsequently shifted our focus to the “hardware” of economic development, intensifying work on the construction of roads and energy facilities and creating incentives for foreign direct investment in mining, fishing, agribusiness, and real-estate development.
For example, Chile’s state-owned copper mining company, Codelco, is increasing its ranks of female employees – and boosting productivity in the process.
But a remark by one mining company executive from a developing country caught the spirit of change.
Estimates of how much electricity Bitcoin mining requires vary widely – some put it as high as 30 terawatt hours per year (equivalent to Morocco’s entire electricity demand), while others suggest it’s a sixth of that.
Technology to extract nutrients from waste already exists, reducing dependency on mining.
In recent years, Chinese-controlled companies have launched a mining frenzy on the plateau that not only damages landscapes sacred to Tibetans, but also is eroding Tibet’s ecology further – including by polluting its precious water.
Indeed, China has implemented no effective safeguards against adverse impacts from intensive water mining.
Make no mistake: Glacier-water mining has major environmental costs in terms of biodiversity loss, impairment of some ecosystem services due to insufficient runoff water, and potential depletion or degradation of glacial springs.
At first, many auxiliary tasks – including mining the coal, or creating intermediate products in workshops – still required enormous physical exertion.
By the late twentieth century, farmers sat on tractors, and even coal mining had become largely mechanized.
More importantly, in some places, hydrate fields are vast but dilute, and extraction would be similar to mining a very low-grade ore-not worth the trouble and expense.
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