Daily Archives: October 21, 2008

Indonesia’s tin islands: blessed or cursed?

Posted on October 21, 2008 by Rashid Faridi

Tin mining on these sleepy islands off Sumatra has brought wealth, but at a price; it is literally eating away at the land. The scale of the environmental damage on the Bangka-Belitung islands can be most clearly seen from the … Continue reading →

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