subject: Surprise!!! What is the home of the "Vast Wealth"! [print this page] Surprise!!! What is the home of the "Vast Wealth"!
American geologists "won" massive reserves of cuprum and lithium which worth about $1 trillion in Afghanistan. The amounts of the rich "natural wealth" is far more than the outside have predicted.
Lucky!!!
The cuprum and iron reserves are enough to make Afghanistan become one of largest world's production bases.
Lithium mineral reserves are equal to world NO.1 Bolivia.
Misfortune!!!
Afghanistan is still in the trapped war and the discovery of the "vast wealth" might be a double-edged sword. However, large-scale mining may need decade's time because of the lack of infrastructure and backward in mining industry.
Surprise! The world-shaking mineral resource lies hidden in the earth of the war country.
A prospecting team consists of the U.S. department of defense officials and American geologists discovered that there holds in store the copper mine, lithium ore, iron ore, cobalt ore, gold ore and such large amount of metal mines. Ore deposits are distributed widely and some are distributed on the part of the southern and eastern border with the
The U.S. officials introduced that the most abundant reserves found so far is copper and iron and the large number of them has enough for Afghanistan to become one of the world largest copper, iron production. Moreover, lithium reserves of Afghanistan equals to the Bolivia. The latter has proven reserves of lithium ranked first. Lithium as a rare mineral is an important raw material to be made of rechargeable batteries. It is widely used in mobile phones, computers and even the electric vehicle. Experts also verified lots of Niobium mineral in Afghanistan. The alloy made by the Niobium is a kind of important superconducting materials. The U.S. officials believe that Afghanistan is expected to grow from a war torn nation into a global mineral resources powers by these mineral resources. An internal memo of the U.S. Defense Department describes that Afghanistan may become "Saudi Arabia of lithium ".
Happiness!!! Mining Chiefs will catch on to the mineral.
The U.S. officials said that they have already reported the finding of the mineral to the Afghan government and the President Hamid Karzai. Despite the development of mining spends years, these deposits is too large. Afghan officials estimate optimistically that foreign mining group will get together in Afghanistan to participate in local mineral exploration. The economy of Afghanistan suffered war-shattered in many years, so their GDP is only about $12 billion. Afghan officials thought that the mining of mineral resources will become the mainstay of the Afghanistan economy in the future.
Experts predicted that large-scale mining may need decade's time due to the lack of infrastructure and backward in mining industry. "This is a country without mining culture. They have some small mines and may appear very big ore from now on, however, only on a shovel are not enough." The American geologist expert Jack Madelyn said. The U.S. officials said that the special action group of the Defense Department has begun to try to help the Afghan government establish a system in order to develop mining. With overseas' experience of working with multinational company has been employed to cooperate with the mineral and industry department of Afghanistan. U.S. Defense Department is now helping the Afghan officials to sell mineral at auction.
Worry!!! Civil strife is hard to cease and its fate is uncertain.
U.S. officials worried that because Afghanistan people are still involved in the war, Taliban militants still maintains active, the corruption issues of the government official is serious, and the discovery of the "vast wealth" may become a double edged sword. Taliban militants may launch a crazy counter-attack in order to regain the control of nation. Domestic corruption case may not be effectively but much worse. Some oligarch or have an affair with the government high-level may grab national wealth.
Historical records: treasure hidden in the library!
Early in 2004, American geologists who were sent to Afghanistan to take part in the reconstruction project Afghanistan in the U.S. reconstruction project found some geological data and graph Afghanistan Geological Prospecting Library which located in the Afghan capital Kabul. The data shows that Afghanistan might contain large amounts of mineral resources.
A special action group sent by the U.S. Defense Department to execute commercial development of the Iraq and turn to Afghanistan didn't get the batch data until 2009. Before this, except the geologists who had taken part in the exploration, no one had ever consulted these data and no one thought that under the boring exploration data may contain the great wealth.
