Patrick Radden Keefe: How an Israeli billionaire gained control of one of Africa’s most valuable mines. One of the world’s largest known deposits of untapped iron ore is buried inside a great, forested mountain range in the tiny West African republic of Guinea. In the country’s southeast highlands, far from any city or major roads, the Simandou Mountains stretch for seventy miles . . .
July 1, 2013 - The New Yorker