The Tibetans who flock to these temples seem to enjoy considerable religious freedom, but Woeser, in an essay on the Potala Palace, accuses the Chinese of turning the Dalai Lama's former residence in Lhasa into a mine of "unlimited commercial opportunities".
Last week, Richard Cheney provided further evidence of the divide between the two main presidential candidates on environmental issues when he criticized the Clinton administration for the way it has been designating millions of acres of public land as national monuments, thereby protecting them from mining and other forms of commercial development.
After the Sept. 11 attacks, the Pentagon considered the idea of mining commercial databases like credit card transactions and phone records to look for links to terrorists; an outcry among civil libertarians and members of Congress blocked that.
The complex of mining, industrial, commercial, and financial activities arising from this vast mineral wealth made the southern Transvaal the economic heartland of South Africa.
The varied assemblage of mining, industrial, commercial, and financial activities arising from this vast mineral wealth have made Gauteng the economic hub of South Africa and its most densely populated province.
Illinois is the birthplace of commercial strip mining in the United States, dating back to the mid-19th century.
The agency criticized Google's practice of tying together data on individuals from across its services, which the regulator said could be mined for commercial purposes.
Indonesia allows commercial mining of shipwrecks as long as a company is licensed and splits its finds with the government.
A major concern with the commercial mining of fossils is the loss, or even complete lack, of context data.
The possibility for commercial mining of deep-sea manganese nodules is currently under exploration in the abyssal Clarion-Clipperton Fracture Zone.
