31.  As a result, he says, Latin America is now attracting more than half of the exploration dollars of U.S. mining companies.

32.  As part of Bank of Nova Scotia, Mocatta can offer a full-service operation to a mining company, including finance and trading.

33.  As part of Bank of Nova Scotia, Mocatta could now offer a full service operation to a mining company, including finance and trading.

34.  As chairman of Caithness Resources, an exploration and mining company based in New York, Bishop could probably afford a newer boat.

35.  As recently as least year a Colombian Congressman accused Colombian mining companies of being set up to launder money for the drug trade, and of reporting fictitious exports.

36.  At stake in the dispute between the Australian Council of Trade Unions and mining company CRA Ltd is the power of the labor movement, which is already waning.

37.  Australia and South Africa are both natural-resource-based countries with major mining companies.

38.  Atok Big Wedge was an inactive mining company that recently changed into a holding company with interests in real estate.

39.  Big South African mining companies are also moving into Zaire.

40.  Bolivia also wants to build a pipeline from its gas fields to northern Chile, where mining companies need a cheap source of energy.