Saturday, October 29, 2005

Philippine mine disaster

Actually, only a dozen killed...at first the news was fifty dead, but many had left the mine and were found alive...

Prayer alert for the famlies...

it also hints at both corruption and success in this country: gold rush, followed by illegal mines, followed by government helping cooperatives of local miners--but the accident occured in one of the few private mines...hmmm...

The sad thing is this: The government has said the country has $1 trillion worth of unexplored mining reserves, enough to pay off the country's public sector debt of $95 billion many times over.