“Avatar” has few fans among mining execs

NEW YORK (Reuters) – It’s enough to make a mining executive grit his teeth or his kids to give him the silent treatment.

In a case of art imitating life — with perhaps a little poetic license — Oscar-winning movie “Avatar” paints big mining companies as the villains of the future.

But real-life executives are not entirely amused by their fictional colleagues being cast in evil roles in what is already the biggest-grossing Hollywood movie of all time.

“Let me put it this way, my kids saw the movie, and my kids know I’m a miner, and they didn’t…

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