In 1962 Venezuela declared that it would no longer abide by the arbitration decision, which ceded mineral-rich territory in the Orinoco basin to Guyana.

In the 1960s France opposed Britain's desire to de-colonize the New Hebrides, fearing that the independence sentiment would be contagious in their mineral-rich colonial possessions in French New Caledonia.

British gains in southern and East Africa prompted Rhodes and Alfred Milner, Britain's High Commissioner in South Africa, to urge a " Cape to Cairo " empire: linked by rail, the strategically important Canal would be firmly connected to the mineral-rich South, though Belgian control of the Belgian Congo Free State and German control of German East Africa prevented such an outcome until the end of World War I, when Great Britain acquired the latter territory.

As the mineral-rich mountain springs of Appalachia were thought to have health-restoring qualities, Carson Springs developed into an early tourist resort.

Recent explorations in the Bismarck Sea seabed have yielded discoveries of mineral-rich beds of sulfides, copper, zinc, silver and gold.

The lake gets its name from the naturally occurring foam that gives its water a soapy appearance, and because the lake's mineral-rich waters have a slick, soapy feel.

Soap Lake's mineral-rich waters have long been thought to have medicinal value.

There are still traces of the instrument at the Villa d ' Este but the mineral-rich water of the river which cascades through the organ grotto has caused accretions which have hidden most of the evidence from view.

The mineral-rich Skellefte field lies within the Boliden Area, where almost 30 mines have been opened since production began in the 1920s and where Boliden currently operates the Renström and Kristineberg underground mines and the Maurliden open pit mine.

Most visitors during this period came for the area's mineral-rich mountain springs, which were thought to have health-restoring qualities.

The first mine, Landsverk I, is also the most mineral-rich pegmatite of the entire Evje-Iveland district, and internationally known for an exciting suit of minerals, many of which occur in good crystals.

Sibley's strategy called for an invasion along the eastern side of the Rocky Mountains, seizing the Colorado Territory ( then at the height of the Colorado Gold Rush ) and Fort Laramie ( the most important United States Army garrison along the Oregon Trail ), before turning westward to attack the mineral-rich Nevada and California.

The Bushveld is one of the most mineral-rich regions of the world.

The settlers grew large quantities of high-quality coffee in the mineral-rich volcanic Andean soil ; this is still the most important crop produced in the area, which is in the center of the so-called " coffee axis " ( eje cafetero ) region.

Chalk streams transport little suspended material ( unlike most rivers ), but are uniquely mineral-rich.

The municipality is located some 100 km west of Stockholm in the southern part of the mineral-rich Bergslagen region.

Rayagada is a mineral-rich district in the southern part of the state of Orissa, in India.

In the central part of the village, springs and geysers are prevalent ; thirty springs, each of differing temperatures and chemical compositions, including warm iron-rich streams and piped examples of mineral-rich warm and cold water.

The upper part of Geneva Creek is an iron fen, where iron oxide is deposited by mineral-rich groundwater coming to the surface.

On July 11 the head of the mineral-rich province of Katanga, Moise Tshombe, announced that his province had seceded from the country.

By the late nineteenth century, the discovery of mineral springs made St. Louis a destination for people seeking the health benefits of local mineral-rich water, which had the added feature of magnetizing steel.

According to a 2 June 1999 article in The Virginian-Pilot, Taylor had extensive business dealings with American televangelist Pat Robertson during the civil war and gave Robertson the rights to mine for diamonds in Liberia's mineral-rich countryside.

The invasion ( now called the New Mexico Campaign to reflect its abortive nature ) had as its aim the seizure of the mineral-rich Colorado Territory and eventually California.

The result: Maria Theresa lost the mineral-rich Duchy of Silesia to Prussia, and the Duchy of Parma to Spain.

On Christmas Day 1985, tensions with Mali over the mineral-rich Agacher Strip erupted in a war that lasted five days and killed about 100 people.

Lyell noted the “ economic advantages ” that geological surveys could provide, citing their felicity in mineral-rich countries and provinces.

In 2007 China agreed to lend the DRC US $ 5bn for two major transport infrastructure projects to link mineral-rich Katanga, specifically Lubumbashi, by rail to an ocean port ( Matadi ) and by road to the Kisangani river port, and to improve its links to the transport network of Southern Africa in Zambia.

According to researchers of the Ben Gurion University of the Negev, treatment with mineral-rich mud compresses can be used to augment conventional medical therapy in these patients.

As the empty spaces within an organism ( spaces filled with liquid or gas during life ) become filled with mineral-rich groundwater and the minerals precipitate from the groundwater, thus occupying the empty spaces.

Another railway line will run inland from Misrata to Sabha at the centre of a mineral-rich area.

Processing plants can utilize large crushers, mills, reactors, roasters and other equipment to consolidate the mineral-rich material and extract the desired compounds and metals from the ore.

New regulation and process of legislative reforms aims to enrich the harmonization and stability of the mining sector in mineral-rich countries.

By the beginning of 20th century the booming and more complex mining sector in mineral-rich countries provided only slight benefits to local communities in terms of sustainability.

Efforts are made to transport raw materials from the rest of the world and from the mineral-rich west to the Chinese plain.

It is petrified as a result of the constant flow of mineral-rich water around and through it, so that it becomes a stone-like structure.

Many of the ghost towns in mineral-rich Africa are former mining towns.

According to the article, Taylor gave Robertson the rights to mine for diamonds in Liberia's mineral-rich countryside.

During the wet season, fish move into the mineral-rich lake to breed and find food.

The epic Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta tells of his voyage by river to Aratta, a mountainous, mineral-rich country up-river from Sumer.

Hot, dry upper slopes, cool, moist ravines, and mineral-rich ledges of basalt talus produce a combination of microclimate ecosystems on the mountain that support plant and animal species uncommon in greater Massachusetts.

Kata Tjuta's domes are the eroded remains of sedimentary rock from the seabed, while Uluru is a relict of the coarse grained, mineral-rich sandstone called arkose.

For generations, mineral-rich spring water welling up in the midst of Arkansas's southern woodlands has drawn people in search of cures and those offering spiritual healing.

A fen is one of the four main types of wetland, and is usually fed by mineral-rich surface water or groundwater.

It contains a geothermal lake of mineral-rich, sulphurous, opaque blue water, which is maintained at a comfortable temperature for swimming.