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Iridium is a bright silvery-white metal, with a slight yellowish cast.
Haiti's Gold, Copper, Uranium 225 and 238 and the world’s largest supply of a rare mineral used in building spacecraft-iridium.
…..When people think of Haiti, they picture a troubled nation plagued with extreme poverty rates, high illiteracy rates, multiple coup’s, government corruption and the highest AIDS rate in the western hemisphere. They picture a nation that relies almost completely on the aid of industrialized nations and private benefactors. What they don’t picture though is a nation potentially sitting on an oil field dwarfing Venezuela’s which is the largest exporter of oil in the western hemisphere, a country teeming with precious metals such as Gold, Copper, Uranium 225 and 238, which can be used to power nuclear reactors and the world’s largest supply of a rare mineral used in building spacecraft-iridium. They don’t picture a nation that has been visited by multiple Canadian and American firms in regards to mining these precious metals and that according to scientists, a nation whose oil field in comparison to Venezuela is like comparing a swimming pool to a glass of water……
http://www.thehandstand.org/archive/february-march2010/articles/iridium.htm