Here is a terrifying thought:  agents of an NGO infiltrate your mining company, gain your confidence, learn your plans, penetrate your secrets, and then a year later put you in the same situation as ex-governor Eliot Spitzer. 

Hard to imagine this happening in the real world: NGOs generally look and act differently from hard-core miners.  (I refrain from specifics!)  But it can happen in the world of virtual reality.  Here is how. 

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David Blades at my take on photography post this photo called Mining Operations on Planet X.  Colorful, but strange.  Maybe that is the  point. 

From what I can tell, this is not a mine, but that is not the point.  Scare tactics is what appears to be at play here.  Much like those reports all over Google on more mines coming closer to your home: 

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