In some cases, minerals are found in remote areas where there are no social infrastructures and/or there are only scattered populations. In these cases, mining firms must build campsites or so-called mining towns to house their workers. Nevertheless, there are cases in which minerals are found in areas near existing urban settlements, which creates a…

I was watching the quarter-final World Cup game in a local bar in Moatize. It was Croatia – Brazil. I naturally expected that people (most of them were from Moatize) would support Brazil because of the cultural and historical connections that the two countries have. Still, I realised there were certain people, and not a…