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In the 1990s the author was asked to help Rio Tinto, one of the world’s biggest mining companies, with an assessment of its preparedness to work in communities overseas. Critics of the mining industry wanted the mining industry to do more to ensure that their relationships with communities reflected good ethnographic understanding and they pressed for new regulations. Global mining has 6000 companies employing 2.5 million people which regularly comprises 60–90 percent of total foreign direct investment (FDI), 30–60 percent of total exports, up to 20 percent of government revenues, and as much as 10 percent of national income.
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Cochrane, G. (2017). Introduction. In: Anthropology in the Mining Industry. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50310-3_1
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