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Russia Using Key South African Port to Look for Minerals in Antarctica

By Darren Taylor A large part of Russia’s oil and gas exploration fleet is currently using South Africa’s biggest harbor as a launchpad for forays into Antarctica, the planet’s last unmined frontier. Based in Cape Town with Moscow’s seismic blaster ships, the Kremlin’s mineral prospecting company, Rosgeo, has not tried to keep its activities in […]