Toronto, Canada (AP)-A desolate tract in Labrador, Canada's poorest region, is the prize in a multi-billion-dollar bidding war between two mining giants seeking to control the most spectacular nickel discovery of the century. Watching them closely are leaders of impoverished Indian bands who want a share of the profits and are pressing claims to the territory encompassing the find. At stake is a bountiful mineral deposit called Voisey's Bay, on the Atlantic coast of northern Labrador. Experts say it holds 10 percent of the world's known nickel reserves, with enough copper and cobalt on hand to pay the full cost of the nickel production.
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