Estimated 1 $trillion
- Started 15 years ago
- Last post 15 years ago
- 36 Responses
- ukit0
haha, Georges you'll be happy to know that I never saw Rambo III so I guess I escaped the brainwashing.
- monoboy0
Surely a good thing for Afghanistan long-term? Jobs, money, stability. All be it on shady circumstances. And if they were to legalise cash crops like weed and heroin, imagine the transformation.
(half joking of course)
- Amicus0
As Journalism this is pretty sub-par. Are BlackBerry's the only phones to use lithium? I hate when "Journalists" use a buzzword such as BlackBerry or iPad in a relatively unrelated article.
- lowimpakt0
a Periodic table of endangered elements
"The following periodic table highlights the most at risk elements due to a variety of factors including current use, known scarcity, current recycling, where it comes from and how easily it can be substituted."
- lowimpakt0
source for that table: http://www.chemistryinnovation.c…
- comicsans0
And they've known since 2004? I'm with the conspiracy theorists on this one.
- Josev0
From th Times article:
"The vast scale of Afghanistan’s mineral wealth was discovered by a small team of Pentagon officials and American geologists. "
I guess I'm ignorant about what the Pentagon does, I thought it was only involved in defense.
- lowimpakt0
yea, they are defending American minerals that just happen to be under Afghan soil.
- vitamins0
Enter Sarcasm:
Isn't America known to mind their own business?
- TheBlueOne0
Nevermind. This was known in 1985:
http://www.theatlantic.com/polit…
Direct link & quote: http://www.gl.iit.edu/govdocs/af…
"Afghanistan has reserves of a wide variety of nonenergy mineral resources, including iron, chrome, copper, silver, gold barite sulfur, talc, magnesium, mica, marble, and lapis lazuli. By 1985 Soviet surveys had also revealed potentially useful deposits of asbestos, nickel, mercury, lead, zinc, bauxite, lithium, and rubies. The Afghan government in the mid1980s was preparing to develop a number of these resources on a large scale with Soviet technical assistance. These efforts were directed primarily at the country's large iron and copper reserves. The iron ore deposits contained an estimated 1.7 billion tons of mixed hematite and magnetite, averaging 62 percent iron. These reserves, among the world's largest, are located at Hajji Gak, almost 4,000 meters up in the Hindu Kush, northwest of Kabul in Bamian Province. Development started in 1983, and because the Afghan authorities had put forth no plan to establish an iron and steel industry, the output appeared destined for the Soviet steel mills in Tashkent."
Yup. Total propaganda attempt as to why we should spend hundreds of billions of public dollars to make sure some private mining industry makes billions of profits for itself at some indeterminable point in the future.
- georgesIII0
Anyways TBO, as usual the tax payers will be footing the bill
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- jmilligan0
did they find unobtainium there too?
- cannonball19780
This sort of news makes me really sad. My dad is from there and It's always been a dream of mine to go and see the country that he is from. Now I'm worried that if I ever do get there it wont be that place.
- ********0
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