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9 minutes ago, Mozzavfc said:

What is that for Armenia?

Looks like pig incense

Pig iron?  A quick Mooney suggests they deal a lot in ore and metals in general.

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3 minutes ago, bickster said:

Pig iron is an intermediate stage in the steel making process. Be a bit nuts to just make pig iron and not steel

I dunno.  It just looks like that's what it says in the map :)

EDIT : It does (unless it's fig iron? :P )

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Just now, BOF said:

I dunno.  It just looks like that's what it says in the map :)

I think that is what it says tbh, I'm just questioning the validity of the data. Wiki says Armenian mines produce Copper, Zinc, Lead and Gold (Oh and diamonds) but no Iron. I call it bollocks :D

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10 minutes ago, BOF said:

I dunno.  It just looks like that's what it says in the map :)

EDIT : It does (unless it's fig iron? :P )

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Figs are high in natural sugars, minerals and soluble fibre. Figs are rich in minerals including potassium, calcium, magnesium, iron and copper and are a good source of antioxidant vitamins A and K that contribute to health and wellness. 

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6 minutes ago, bickster said:

I think that is what it says tbh, I'm just questioning the validity of the data. Wiki says Armenian mines produce Copper, Zinc, Lead and Gold (Oh and diamonds) but no Iron. I call it bollocks :D

Are you saying you don't believe something that's on the internet?

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3 hours ago, wilko154 said:

Maps showing which export makes each country the most money.

How do Africa have some of the richest resources but also be so poor?!

 

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Surprised India is precious stones. I thought it would have been programmers ;)

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8 hours ago, wilko154 said:

How do Africa have some of the richest resources but also be so poor?!

If what our government tells us about Venezuela is to believed, the problem is socialism.😉

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2 hours ago, il_serpente said:

If what our government tells us about Venezuela is to believed, the problem is socialism.😉

The problem is capitalism. Who  'owns'  and profits from all those African resources? Not Joe Average African, that's for sure. 

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46 minutes ago, mjmooney said:

The problem is capitalism. Who  'owns'  and profits from all those African resources? Not Joe Average African, that's for sure. 

I'm sorry, but that doesn't fit the narrative, so it can't be true.

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Re Armenia and pig iron, lots of websites seem to be using a form of words first used in the CIA World Factbook 2008:

'Pig iron, unwrought copper and other nonferrous metals are Armenia's highest valued exports'. 

The seeming absurdity of producing pig iron rather than steel might still have something to do with the location of factories in Soviet production lines perhaps?

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6 minutes ago, bickster said:

Every person in the UK mapped (2010 Census information used)

It's interactive so can't be posted here and a screenshot wouldn't do it justice

According to that, there's only one person in our house, but next-door-but-one has seventeen people living in it. 

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3 minutes ago, mjmooney said:

According to that, there's only one person in our house, but next-door-but-one has seventeen people living in it. 

Yeah I'm calling it BS too, can't even find our village

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