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  Diana, it so happens that in many countries, such as in South Africa and the Ucraine and China, mines are so neglected, when it comes to safety measures (which are very expensive), or so exploited, that to continue using them inevitably leads to continuous structural collapses of earth within the shafts.
  It often comes down to minimum wages being about - say 50 pence anhour - and the minerals being sold at world-market prices. The same mines in Britain and Europe would have been closed down long ago, 1) for safety reasons, 2) because it would not pay off to have them operating with miners receiving an average western wage!
  That's what it all comes down to, Diana, crude reality!

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