Thursday, December 07, 2006. An Ordinary Man, an excerpt. So it did not stop. The guards opened the gate for me at my house, and I walked through my front door to the sound of a ringing telephone. He was a colleague and a friend, and not one to waste time when something was pressing.

Bellavista gold mine, Costa Rica. Putting an open-pit gold mine in a mountainous, tropical region prone to landslides and torrential rainfall is a disaster waiting to happen. Costa Rica outlawed all new open-pit mining in 2002, but the Bellavista mine was given a permit prior to the ban. It is the only operating large open-pit mine in this ecotourism-dependent country. High metals prices are driving a gold mining rush in other parts of Latin America. Tuesday, September 11, 2007.

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