RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:2017 PRODUCTION NUMBERS .... FROM WNAYeah, slave labour/child labour/worker exploitation, and no enivronmental respect do create an uneven playing field...
The Kaz's have abundant low grade but very shallow U apparenlty - curious as to how safe/healthy their workers are....those are the types of things that come to light when a country wants to go legit and access world equity markets etc....could cause an evening of the playing field - their costs could go up (albeit will take plenty of time). I am curious as to how their mines are holding up - the easy/cheapest ones tend to get mined first - so those could get trickier - don't know enough (as it sounds like most of the world doesn't know either) as to how their resources are set up for the future, or are the ripest/sweetest fruits fairly close to being picked already?...Can't count on that - but it is curious.
As a proud Canadian drives me nuts when the rest of world has cut down most of their forests and Canada replants a ton and UN starts criticizing Canada and wants to put Carbon taxes etc into play .....
Same thing with Oil sands - in this day and age = very responsibly drilled. But Leonardo DiCaprio flies a helicopter over it for 3 minutes and doesn't even talk to the departments handling responsible drilling/oil extraction and starts spouting off....picking on one industry 1000 miles from Hollywood where his personal carbon footprint is probably that of 1000 people lol.....