But our guide told us that the continued functioning of the Tatio geysers, and of some local agriculture, is threatened by aggressive plans for mining expansion in northern Chile because mining demands abundant water.
When Germany occupied Norway, Grieg escaped to Britain with the Norwegian government-in-exile, and in his war poems (All That Is Mine Demand: War Poems of Nordahl Grieg, 1944; Friheten ["Freedom"], published in Norwegian, 1945) and radio talks he became a leading voice of free Norway.
Workers holding spears and clubs have gathered at several mines, demanding higher wages.
Some of the families had been camping outside the mine demanding the recovery of the miners' remains.
Environmental groups and residents of Borroloola have long protested about the potential adverse environmental impacts of the mine, demanding information on the contamination of waterways and a smouldering waste rock pile emitting potentially toxic fumes.
Conditions today have barely improved: the colonial-era props that still brace many of the tunnels mark the threshold to another world, where El Tío, the horned god of the mines, demands sacrifices of coca leaves, alcohol and llama blood, and safety equipment consists of a helmet.
But negotiations bogged down when Barrick Gold Corporation, the Toronto, Canada, company that owned the mine, demanded that the government assume liability for safety, environmental, and other problems that might emerge later (Science, 15 February 2002, p. 1213).
A large number of diverse text-mining tools exist that provide different strategies and interfaces to satisfy the extensive data-mining demands in biomedical sciences (Krallinger et al., 2010).
Data mining tasks demand the use of robust software platforms.
Interestingly, the results highlight the possible role of artisanal mining and demand for domestic agricultural and food products in improving the welfare of poor rural households.
Squandering energy resources, even if carbon-free, has collateral impacts–such as potential excessive exposure to cadmium or other toxic compounds, excessive mining and demand for rare earths and other precious materials, water depletion, and resource waste, which degrades well-being.
