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Community conflict can cost miners up to $20m a week

Michael Allan McCrae | May 20, 2014 | 4:56 pm Base Metals Battery Metals Energy Precious Metals Coal Copper Gold Potash Rare Earth Silver Uranium Zinc 

[caption id="attachment_783379" align="alignnone" width="600"] Chart from report Conflict Translates Environmental and Social Risk into Business Costs[/caption] Conflict with communities can incur costs of roughly US$20 million per week for mining projects valued between US$3 billion and US$5 billion according to...

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