Archive for July, 2006

Chinese investing in Zambia’s Copper Belt

(July 31st, 2006)

In the 1970s and ’80s copper prices plummeted worldwide and Zambia’s mines closed, crippling that country’s economy. Gretchen Wilson visits one mine that’s now booming at the hands of Chinese investors.

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