...hostile political trends and the growing threats to the security of investments there. "Already bundreds of millions of dollars, billions even, of capital...developing alternative supplies in areas where the finan" cial outlook is more predictable and the profitability more assured." * Mineral Development...

...countries has been under way owing to more hostile political trends and the growing threats to the security of investments there. "Already hundreds of...mineral property in the developing world brought a re-evaluation of the relative attractiveness of other sources of minerals where higher political attractiveness...

...attractiveness --and overall profitability- -of lowergrade deposits elsewhere which rated better with investors. Hundreds of millions of dollars, billions even, of...alternative supplies in areas where the financial outcome is more predictable and the profitability more assured. The competitiveness of these alternative...

...countries has been under way owing to more hostile political trends and the growing threats to the security of investments there * "Already hundreds...more predictable and the profitability more assured." * Mineral Development in the Eighties: Prospects and Problems, a Report prepared by a group of Committee...