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[–] pizzahoe@lemm.ee 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They bought the land? They paid the miners?? Mining has a history of forcing native people out of their lands through threats or worse killing people, making slaves out of poor people and forcing them into 12+ hours shifts in horrible and unsafe conditions.