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93. Ibid.
94. Ibid.
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98. “Tantalum,” Encyclopaedia Britannica (britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/582754/tantalum). The entry states: “Tantalum was discovered (1802) by the Swedish chemist Anders Gustaf Ekeberg and named after the mythological character Tantalus because of the tantalizing problem of dissolving the oxide in acids.”
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100. Ibid.
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103. Faced with a Gun, What Can you Do? War and the Militarisation of Mining in Eastern Congo, Global Witness, July 2009. Tables with statistics on the mineral exports from 2007 and the first half of 2008 can be found on p. 90 (globalwitness.org/media_library_detail.php/786
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104. “Congo’s Tragedy: The war the world forgot.”
105. Jack Ewing, “Blood on Your Phone? Unlikely It’s ‘Conflict Coltan,’” Der Speigel Online International, November 18, 2008 (spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,591097,00.html).
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107. American Chemical Society, Chemistry in the Community, 5th ed. (New York: W. H. Freeman, 2006), p. 176.
108. Ibid.
109. “The Next 10 Years are Critical—The World Energy Outlook Makes the Case for Stepping up Co-operation with China and India to Address Global Energy Challenges,” press release from the International Energy Agency, November 7, 2007 (iea.org/press/pressdetail.asp?PRESS_REL_ID=239).
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111. Ibid.
112. Ibid.
113. Lou Dematteis and Kayna Szymczak, Crude Reflections: Oil, Ruin, and Resistance in the Amazon Rainforest (San Francisco: City Lights Publishers, 2008), pp. 6–18.
114. “Carbon plan in Ecuador would leave jungle oil reserves untapped,” Yale Environment 360, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies (e360.yale.edu/content/digest.msp?id=1897).
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