Environmental minerals playing a vital role in Conflicts

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Minerals brings in income to many countries in the world. Minerals suchs as gold, copper, nikel, diamond ans oil are extracted from the land and sometimes causes conflicts which can results in the degredation of the environment.The nuclear weapons and its emission cause pollution which results in toxic rains and sometimes causes draught.In today's news analysis I am going to dig deeper on environmental conflicts caused by minerals such as oils, diamond, gold and copper.The chronic wars surronding Iran, British and other countries are centred on oils found in Iran. A report from Press tv of 18th February 2012 reveals that India relies on Iran for Oil  while on the other hand The U.S president imposes sanctions tothose who buys oil from Iran.One can observe the conflict between Iran and United States. In Zimbabwe there was once a talk about the blood diamond during the Kimberly process this signifies that enironmental minerals can cause conflict amongst states,nations or between individuals.For more evidence http://www.saidbyred.com/2010/09/zimbabwe-stones-and-conflict-minerals.html can explain how minerals can cause conflicts and sometimes wars.