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Diamond Mining

Travel

Finders, Keepers

Deep in southwest Arkansas is a state park that charges visitors $10 to search for gems that can be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Katherine LaGrave Afar May 2021 20min Permalink

Science World

Of Mines and Men

How the tapping of Angola’s natural resources has kept the country a killing field, and made it one of the world’s most glaringly inefficient kleptocracies.

Scott Johnson Guernica Apr 2011 25min Permalink