a look Inside a remote and dangerous Afghan mine Their mines without the Taliban are in the 16th century, Good luck trying to get those minerals out and to market! Knowing this I have to reiterate what we already discussed as this really puts their mineral wealth in a new perspective at least for me!
Afghanistan the Saudi Arabia of Lithium The China of Capitalism, success or failure of tribalism is up to them, Afghanistan the curse of natural resources! US geologists find $1 trillion of mineral reserves in Afghanistan, the deposits, which include large veins of iron, copper, cobalt, gold and lithium are so large they could alter the Afghan economy, American geologists said after discovering the resources.
Plans were announced to start mining copper in the Aynak valley, southwest of Kabul, which holds one of the world’s biggest untapped copper deposits, estimated to be worth up to $88_billion (£44 billion) – more than double Afghanistan’s entire gross domestic product (GDP) in 2007.
In November, 2008 a 30-year lease was sold to the China Metallurgical Group for $3 billion, making it the biggest foreign investment and private business venture in Afghanistan’s history.
However despite the latest finds, with no mining industry in place it would take decades to develop an infrastructure to exploit the vast mineral reserves which are scattered throughout the country including along the border with Pakistan where some of the most intense fighting has taken place. US geologists find $1 to $3 trillion of mineral reserves in Afghanistan
China‘s involvement in Afghanistan is more than overdue! US troops provided security for China’s monstrous copper mine
China is mining what may be the largest deposit of copper on the planet. They stand to make tens of Billions and we are defending their interests.
For now this is justified as we have to be in the area anyway but once China builds a railroad in order to move the copper to port that better come to an end. You can bet every inch of that railroad and port is going to need 24/7 security. It will be a major target as the Taliban seek to keep what is Afghanistan’s theirs!
China should have her troops there providing her own security at the very least. If they were helping in Afghanistan as they should they would be less inclined to be trying to gum up the works for us everywhere else. We must make this a world effort if we are to succeed. I am happy to see we are moving in that direction.
In closing there are 1 to 3 trillion dollars worth of mineral resources alone. Enough to make them a power house if they could only come together in some manner and had someone in control of the country that knew how to capitalize from it. They are throughout Afghanistan including the Afghan Pakistan border which is significant to me.
There is enough lithium alone to power laptops computers Ipads Ipods everything you can think of in the age of lithium batteries, the 21st century. The heck with copper mines pipelines and oil and gas this could force the Taliban into being the China of Afghanistan allowing Capitalism to facilitate their preferred lifestyle of tribalism as the Chinese have used it to further communism. It is up to them it is up to Afghanistan because history has taught us progress will not be denied. You either use it to your advantage or be trampled. I hope Afghanistan chooses to use this opportunity to farther their preferred lifestyle instead of trying to fight it. Good luck trying to reach those riches and getting them to market!
James Joiner
Gardner, Ma
http://anaverageamericanpatriot.blogspot.com
7 comments:
Here's the problem. Everybody thinks that the Taliban is one homogeneous group but the truth is that there are many tribes fighting over there. Some side with the Taliban while others just fight us on their own. Add to that a corrupt central government and I think you get the picture. Then there's the fact that Afghanistan has less than 50 miles of railroads the last time I checked. You can't make a country out of an area that doesn't want to be a country.
Oh yeah, total tribalism. They will not be controlled by a central government period. Good luck to Chine when they build that railroad to move their copper!
Afghanistan, the land of vast riches!
We have, what, Greece, Persians, Brits, and who else, going there for riches at some point in history?
I remember how those mineral riches were discovered the first time when the Soviets were there, and talking about leaving.
Now they are discovered again while we search for a reason to stay!
And finally a Kipling story of a man who wished to claim Afghanistan as his kingdom...
http://www.readbookonline.net/readOnLine/296/
Wease the timing of announcing something we have known for years is more than suspect but what purpose could announcing it now have but to ensure we stay until we join the graveyard of Nations.
There are people making a lot of money on our adventure in Afghanistan.
That's reason enough to do anything. Anything at all.
But are the riches really there?
When Bush was President, I watched many of his speeches as we were gearing up to conquer Iraq.
In one of them, he told us that Saddam Hussein had 20 nuclear tipped ballistic missiles capable of hitting cities in the USA in 30 minutes.
The crowd kind of murmured a bit, then began clapping as they always did.
The next few days, the talk show radio hosts had to explain that he just got carried away. The White House scrubbed that part from the transcript when they put it online.
Bush seemed to believe it's true, and many people watching his speech believed him.
How can 'we' know what mineral wealth lies in Afghansitan? And does it matter?
Yeah wease and all of them corrupt illicit gains. Like you I did not believe a damn lie that came out of Bush's mouth but he did not care he was the decider. I am sure they just went with the odds figuring the size of the mountainous region. This controlled lie we are living did not stop with Bush it just goes on and on until?
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