A Lake for Your Ore

Beginning in the 50's Liberia became one of the world's largest supplier of iron ore, feeding the growth of the industrialized community.  By 1982 over 90 percent of the country's deposits of ore had been exported, leaving ghost town and lakes where there was once ore.

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