Looking back, we dodged a steel bullet in South Africa. Or to be more precise, we dodged an iron ore bullet. After shipping iron ore from Palabora Mining Company to China for years, we bid to buy the entire company when principal owners Rio Tinto and Anglo-American decided to sell. The mining complex borders world famous Kruger National Park in Limpopo Province in the northeast corner of the country. It is south of Zimbabwe, east of Botswana and just west of Mozambique. There