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The mining sector's two biggest risks: country risk and resource nationalism

Richard Mills - Ahead of the Herd | August 26, 2011 | 6:18 pm Europe 

Today many governments are looking at ways to get more money from miners as companies report record profits. The higher the returns and the higher the profits, the greedier governments become. As commodity prices rise governments try to boost their...

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