[Text] December 2004 | Number 72 | REVIEW[] [Image] Front cover: view of the Rössing Uranium mine, Namibia, in the early evening. The pit is around 300m deep, 3km long and 1.5km wide, and one year's production could meet the UK's total power needs for eight years.
[Text] “Freeing up trade means removing the barriers to trade between nations: tariffs, subsidies, and import/export bans. People in favour of these barriers claim that they protect economies – but, in fact, all they do is slow down economic growth.”
[Image] Back cover: Community collaboration – pupils at Loharano School near Petriky, Madagascar. QIT Madagascar Minerals (Rio Tinto 80%) assists several schools in the Fort Dauphin area of south Madagascar, where it has three potential mineral sands mining sites.
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Contents

Mining towards a better world
Pressure groups campaign againts global corporations - but do their arguments hold water? Rio Tinto chairman Paul Skinner looks at the impact of the globalization.
By Paul Skinner
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The product group leaders Concluding our series of Review profiles by Peter Brigg

In this issue:

Back to the first syllable of recorded time
How the continuous interaction of atmosphere, sea, crust - and the fiery matter beneath the crust - shapes the ever chaning surface of our earth. John Player reads a new book by Richard Fortey.
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Sam Walsh – Aluminium/Iron ore
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Preston Chiaro – Energy
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As hard as they come
Up to scratch? Meet Friedrich Mohs and his famed geological scale.
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Uranium resurgent
After years in the doldrums following the Chernobyl disaster, nuclear power is set to gain ground as a cheap, low waste energy source.
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