Which Pacific island nation's economy was famously built on phosphate mining, making its citizens briefly among the wealthiest per capita in the 1970s?
Tiny nations sometimes strike it rich through natural resources, only to see the wealth vanish as quickly as it came. One Pacific island became a textbook case of resource boom and bust.
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