African Mining: A Light at the End of the Tunnel?
| Review of African Political Economy - Vol. 19 No. 51 African Mining: A Light at the End of the Tunnel? |
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| Abstract of Briefing |
| Title: | African Mining: A Light at the End of the Tunnel? |
| Author: | Magnus Ericsson |
| Location: | Vol.19 No.51 (July 1991), pp96-107 |
| From the early 1980s until 1987-1988 the world mining and metal industries experienced a prolonged and deep crisis. This crisis was not only a recurrent cyclical trough but a structural crisis caused by changes in the supply and demand pattern for many of the traditionally most important minerals and metals. |
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