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http://twitter.com/goanet --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Here is an abstract from an article in The Washington Post dated Feb 14 2010. It refers to mining in Australia and the devastating resulting 'HOLE' where once a mountain stood. If this is what we envisage Goa's future will be, then God Save us from such disaster before it occurs. NEWMAN, AUSTRALIA -- Here in this land of searing heat, scrub and eucalyptus, a land so vast that road signs warn the next gas station is 600 miles away, Mount Whaleback was once 1,500 feet high. Today it's a hole, the biggest open-pit iron ore mine in the world -- an entire mountain crushed, sold and shipped to China. Regards.... Manuel (Eddie) Tavares.