Brazil's Tin Man Mines Amazonian Fortune The Washington Post | February 9, 1988| | . This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

In the late 1960s, Octavio Cavalcanti Lacombe had a mad notion. The Sao Paulo engineer, who started his career building highways in the civilized south of Brazil, bought out a small mining company and went looking for tin in Amazonia.

Back then, no Brazilian company had any experience in such mining. In all of the Amazon, only one other mechanized mining venture had ever been attempted, and that was comfortably backed by the American metals giant, Bethlehem Steel.

"Amazonia was virgin then. We were called adventurers," Lacombe recalled recently. "And adventurers always got swallowed up by ...

Related newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles from HighBeam Research

(Including press releases, facts, information, and biographies)

	Gluten measurement and its relationship to food toxicity for celiac disease patients.(Commentary)(Clinical report) Magazine article from: Plant Methods ; ...by an aberrant immune response to dietary gluten [1]. It is treated by life-long adherence to a gluten-free (GF) diet. Speciality GF foods...GF standards [2, 3]. The analysis of gluten is challenging because gluten is a mixture...
	Gluten-Free and Regular Foods: A Cost Comparison Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of Dietetic Practice and Research ; ...The treatment of celiac disease is a strict gluten-free diet for life. This diet is assumed to...assumption. In the current study, the prices of gluten-free foods and regular (gluten-containing) foods were compared to determine...
	Gluten-free pies bring more dough to pizzerias Newspaper article from: The Record (Bergen County, NJ) ; ...Bergen County, NJ) 10-21-2009 Gluten-free pies bring more dough to pizzeriasBy...through comment cards. Why not start making gluten-free pizzas to accommodate customers with celiac disease, gluten intolerance or wheat allergies, customers...
	Gluten-free grows up Magazine article from: Functional Foods & Nutraceuticals ; ...PATRICK MCGUIGAN tours the maturing gluten-free market Pasta that fell apart...these used to be the sorts of choices gluten-intolerant consumers had to make. But times have changed, and so have gluten-free offerings. As awareness of...
	Gluten-Free Market Goes Mainstream News Wire article from: AP Online ; ...N.Y. More than 40 items sit in the gluten-free section of a Hannaford Supermarket...bottom shelves of obscure grocers, the gluten-free revolution is surfacing in the...major supermarkets. The prevalence of gluten-free products is raising awareness about...
	living gluten free Magazine article from: Better Nutrition ; YOU MAY THINK STAYING AWAY FROM GLUTEN IS A GOOD THING-THAT DEPENDS ON YOUR BODY Stroll the...breads, crackers and desserts touting themselves as gluten-free. Free of what? Gluten-it's a protein that is often confused with wheat...
	Gluten-free cooking expo set.(Time Out!) Newspaper article from: Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL) ; ...Divas" participating in Chicagolands first Gluten Free Cooking Expo plan to "show and tell...possible sans wheat, barley and rye. Choosing gluten-free foods and learning to implement a gluten-free diet can be tricky and time consuming...
	Gluten-free cooking expo set.(News) Newspaper article from: Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL) ; ...Divas" participating in ChicagolandEs first Gluten Free Cooking Expo plan to "show and tell...possible sans wheat, barley and rye. Choosing gluten-free foods and learning to implement a gluten-free diet can be tricky and time consuming...
	Gluten-free and other formulation challenges.(r&d applications) Magazine article from: Prepared Foods ; ...interested in increasing the palatability of gluten-free products. Ingredients, such as...fat-free products was also presented. Gluten-free Strategies Celiac sprue is an intolerance...AAFI), during her speech titled, "Gluten-free Strategies." To manage the condition...
	Gluten Free Fox Features Search Plugins and Widgets for Gluten-Free Search Results. News Wire article from: PRWeb ; ...com via COMTEX) -- When "The World's Gluten-Free Search Engine" launched in December of 2008, gluten-free information became much more easily...that up to 30% of the US population is gluten sensitive), the world of gluten-free...

For more facts and information, see all results

Find more facts and information related to the article "Brazil's Tin Man Mines Amazonian Fortune"