A man looks at the landscape of Nauru, which has been left barren after decades of phosphate mining, on August 19, 2001. Reuters. Today, almost all of Nauru's economy is based on foreign ...

Phosphate mining is about to be revived on the Pacific island of Nauru. The Nauru Government has struck a deal with the Australian fertiliser company Incitec Pivot.

By 2005, phosphate mining and exports had resumed, providing a much-needed boost to Nauru's economy, according to the government website. It also mentions that the secondary phosphate deposits are ...

Decades of phosphate mining have left Nauru’s landscape a lunar wasteland When phosphate was first discovered on Nauru a century ago it covered nearly 80 per cent of the island. Special series ...

1906 - Phosphate mining begins. Britain divides profits with German firm. 1914 - Nauru is seized by Australian troop on the outbreak of World War One, as the Allies occupy all Germany's Pacific ...

A phosphate mining site in Nauru, 1997, leaving a barren terrain of limestone pinnacles (Auscape/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) Related Content. How the West can shore up its strategic ...

Named Pleasant Island by its first European visitors, Nauru in the central Pacific is the world's smallest republic. In the 21st Century it has been a key part of Australia's controversial ...