I
am one of 24 brothers and sisters. We own a large piece of land, which has an
abundant natural occurrence of a mineral. One day someone came and told us that
the minerals under our land are valuable and that we can be rich beyond our
wildest dreams. His name was Mr Developer. He sold us tales and promises of
wonder, we could not resist.
He came with a familiar looking neighbor who knew my
language, and another bloke who told me that he was Mr. Government and that we
had a duty to listen to him because despite us owning our own land; anything
below six feet belonged to him. This was all very confusing to my family and I,
but they looked much wiser and smarter than us, so we listened.
They introduced us to Mr Lawyer, who wrote up a
paper called a Special Mining Lease. Mr Lawyer said that this paper was the
agreement between ourselves, Mr Developer, and Mr Government. We asked him what
the details of the agreement were.