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Tiny Uruguay could become world’s eighth largest iron ore producer

Cecilia Jamasmie | August 30, 2013 | 7:47 pm Europe Latin America Iron Ore 

A controversial law passed in early August to regulate large-scale mining in Uruguay, could open up the country’s 2,500 million tonnes of underground iron ore deposits to foreign exploitation, which has triggered increasing opposition from locals that threatens the development...

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