A long, long time ago I was an archaeologist.

I caught a BBC prgramme last night about the Coast of the UK. One of the places featured was the Great Orme Copper Mine:



The presenter marvelled about the bravery and technology and human ingenuity that was involved in excavating and smelting the copper all those thousands of years ago. Fine, all your usual televisional archaeological clichés...

All I could think about was a recent Channel 4 report about tin mines in the Congo:



We really haven't come that far.

Great Orme Mines

Congo's Tin Soliders - Channel 4