this has me very worried
Jun. 14th, 2010 11:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
winterbadgerAfghanistan may have more than a trillion dollars worth of untapped mineral deposits, a spokesman for the ministry of mines has suggested.
The statement came after reports in the New York Times of the work of a team of Pentagon officials and US geologists.
They discovered large quantities of iron and copper as well as valuable deposits of lithium.
Anyone who doesn't know why I find this worrying news should Google the words "zaire mobutu minerals". Or just read this.
Countries with weak central governments, strong ethnic regionalism, and a tradition of warlordism, tend to do not so well when Western industrial nations find out they have rich mineral wealth. And that's assuming they're not already attempting to recover from decades of foreign occupation and civil war.
The statement came after reports in the New York Times of the work of a team of Pentagon officials and US geologists.
They discovered large quantities of iron and copper as well as valuable deposits of lithium.
Anyone who doesn't know why I find this worrying news should Google the words "zaire mobutu minerals". Or just read this.
Countries with weak central governments, strong ethnic regionalism, and a tradition of warlordism, tend to do not so well when Western industrial nations find out they have rich mineral wealth. And that's assuming they're not already attempting to recover from decades of foreign occupation and civil war.
