But difficulties building infrastructure and negotiating mineral rights have stymied many projects.

但是基础设施建筑和采矿权谈判中的困难妨碍了很多项目。

Imagine that you purchase a plot of land not knowing the mineral rights have been sold.

想象一下， 您购买了一块土地，却不知道矿产权已售出。

But -- and this is not Teapot Dome. This is not somebody selling the mineral rights of a country.

但是——这不是 Teapot Dome。这不是有人出卖一个国家的矿业权。

Moreover the disposition of land, mineral rights, forests, and water power was also in the hands of national leaders.

此外，土地、矿业权、森林和水权的处置权也掌握在国家领导人手中。

But basically, it also forms by just like water dripping with there being just the right minerals in it and dripping for a really long time in a certain way.

但基本上，它也是通过滴水形成的，其中含有恰到好处的矿物质，并以某种方式滴水很长时间。

The standard thinking goes that somehow the conditions were ideal for just the right minerals to come together in a series of chemical reactions that yielded self-replicating molecules, that is, early life.

标准的想法是， 不知何故，条件非常适合恰好合适的矿物质在一系列化学反应中聚集在一起， 产生自我复制的分子， 即早期生命。

And they were able to slip into their treaty for allotment a very curious provision at the time which essentially said that they will maintain the subsurface mineral rights to their land.

他们在当时的分配条约中加入了一项非常奇怪的条款，该条款实质上是说他们将保留其土地的地下采矿权。