<span><em>The answer would be True</em></span>
Gold is plentiful in Africa and is a necessity for most technological devices.
<span>Mercury's distance at inferior conjunction is 0.61 AU
Looking at a table of orbits, Mercury has an orbital distance of 0.39 AU. So the inferior conjunction will be:
1 AU - 0.39 AU = 0.61 AU</span>
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