当前全球商品价格居高不下,资本正在流向拉丁美洲的采矿行业。遍布全球的各跨国公司正在积极寻找开拓矿业资源的机会以便满足全球对石油、煤、黄金和其他矿产日益增长的需求。作为全球矿产资源的主要供应地区,拉丁美洲扮演着非常重要的角色。在拉丁美洲,整个矿业的国内生产总值在2007年已达到16亿美元,是该地区整个国民生产总值的3%,根据拉丁美洲和加勒比海 The current high global commodity prices, capital is flowing to Latin America’s mining industry. Multinational corporations around the world are actively looking for opportunities to exploit mining resources to meet the world’s growing demand for oil, coal, gold and other minerals. As a major supplier of mineral resources to the world, Latin America plays a very important role. In Latin America, the entire mining sector’s GDP has reached 1.6 billion U.S. dollars in 2007, representing 3% of the region’s entire GDP, according to Latin America and the Caribbean