Commodity boom spurs Russia’s iron belt
theglobeandmail.com, 10:00 AM EDT 30-Jun-2008
by ROBIN PAXTON, Reuters
GUBKIN, Russi - Soviet geologists were looking for oil when exploring this region 500 kilometres south of Moscow.
Instead, they unearthed Europe’s largest iron belt. Legend has it the pit blasted into the fertile soil is big enough today to fit the world’s population twice over: it has certainly […]
