Rare Earth Book Description: Marc Royce stares out of the helicopter, a sense of foreboding rising with the volcanic cloud. Below, the Rift Valley slashes across Africa like a scar. Decades of conflicts, droughts, and natural disasters have left their mark. Dispatched to audit a relief organization, Royce is thrust into the squalor and chaos of Kenyan refugee camps. But his true mission focuses on the area’s reserves of once-obscure minerals now indispensable to high-tech industries. These strategic elements – called rare earths – have inflamed tensions on the world’s statge and stoked tribal rivalries. As Royce prepares to report back to…
Rare Earth by Davis Bunn
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