Afghanistan sitting on a gold mine

[TimberWolf]

The United States has discovered nearly $1 trillion in untapped mineral deposits in Afghanistan...huge veins of iron, copper, cobalt, gold and critical industrial metals like lithium...An internal Pentagon memo, for example, states that Afghanistan could become the “Saudi Arabia of lithium,”

A bit of luck the US and UK are there trying to stabilise the country. Or whatever.

At the same time, American officials fear resource-hungry China will try to dominate the development of Afghanistan’s mineral wealth, which could upset the United States, given its heavy 'investment' [my quotes] in the region.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/14/wo...l?pagewanted=1

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Why do you think the British were there back in Queen Victorias time?

[Doggy Styles]

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1817. Ho hum. Maybe they wanted it for Queen Victoria's Hydrogen Bombe.

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In 1817 wouldn't it have been for George III's Federation spacevessel?

[threaded]

In 1817 wouldn't it have been for George III's Federation spacevessel?

That's just madness.

[shaunbhoy]

A bit of luck the US and UK are there trying to stabilise the country.

Well at least this ought to coax a few more of our NATO brethren to step up to the plate and supply some proper frontline troops instead of padres, cooks, and bottlewashers!!

Who'd have thought it eh?

[markinbrussels]

The West is entitled to all that, given the investment in money and blood.