A man looks at the landscape of Nauru, which has been left barren after decades of phosphate mining, on August 19, 2001. Reuters. Today, almost all of Nauru's economy is based on foreign ...

Dr Firth described Nauru as having the “world’s strangest economy” and said while some of the phosphate riches had helped locals, the rest was “siphoned off”.

The scars and industrial-scale infrastructure of phosphate mining remain in and around Nauru. In 1907, Nauru — administered by Australia until 1966 — became among the richest sources of phosphorus ...

Nauru's Education Minister says the Nauru Phosphate Royalties Trust, which once owned properties worth billions of dollars, is insolvent. The minister has written to the new President of Nauru ...

1989 - Nauru sues Australia in the International Court of Justice for additional phosphate royalties dating back to trusteeship period, and compensation for mining damage.

By 2005, phosphate mining and exports had resumed, providing a much-needed boost to Nauru's economy, according to the government website. It also mentions that the secondary phosphate deposits are ...

For Nauru, this program is being pitched as a chance to secure the future of the island, which has a difficult, dark history. Nauru was strip mined for phosphate from the early 1900s.

Pacific microstate Nauru is selling citizenship to fund its retreat from rising seas, President David Adeang told AFP, opening a contentious "golden passport" scheme as other climate financing ...

When you hear the word “Nauru”, most Australians think of little more than refugees and riots.