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1 posted on 08/29/2025 1:13:26 PM PDT by Red Badger
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Kazakhs also found a huge deposit of the rare mineral Boratium.


2 posted on 08/29/2025 1:17:46 PM PDT by rfp1234 (E Porcibus Unum)
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Putin will be claiming it has no right to be a state.


3 posted on 08/29/2025 1:19:51 PM PDT by DannyTN
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You load 19 tons and what do you get

Apologies to Tennessee Ernie Ford.


4 posted on 08/29/2025 1:22:38 PM PDT by DFG
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“...and it wasn’t found where you’d expect.”

I wouldn’t expect it anywhere else but in some fifth world backwater.


5 posted on 08/29/2025 1:23:14 PM PDT by decal (They won't stop, so they'll have to be stopped)
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There are deposits of minerals all over the world. The big question, alluded to in this article is:

Can they be extracted for a lower cost than they are worth on the market?

7 posted on 08/29/2025 1:25:01 PM PDT by marktwain
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“With the scale of the discovery comes the need for careful environmental oversight.”

If you lock up any environmentalists that problem goes away quickly!


8 posted on 08/29/2025 1:31:31 PM PDT by cgbg (It was not us. It was them--all along.)
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it wasn’t found where you’d expect.

I'm not a geologist. Why should I have not expected it there?
10 posted on 08/29/2025 1:49:08 PM PDT by posterchild
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Somebody call Sean Connery!


11 posted on 08/29/2025 1:49:57 PM PDT by Hammerhead
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Careful! Putin might cast his covetous eyes on that nation now!


16 posted on 08/29/2025 2:16:03 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( )
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Typical time for a mining operation from discovery to harvesting is usually ten years, but that is in the West, where rules,regulations, and financing get in the way.


18 posted on 08/29/2025 3:31:36 PM PDT by delta7
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First potassium, and now this!


19 posted on 08/29/2025 4:39:23 PM PDT by coloradan (They're not the mainstream media, they're the gaslight media. It's what they do. )
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Kazakhstan is 70% Muslim.


20 posted on 08/29/2025 4:46:43 PM PDT by aimhigh (1 John 3:23 "And THIS is His commandment . . . . ")
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21 posted on 08/29/2025 4:49:03 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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I believe that 19 tons equals 38,000 pounds - which works out to $2.067b in gold, assuming a price of $3400 an ounce.

Just over 2 billion dollars is a lot of money but when you consider all the worlds gold can fit in a Olympic sized swimming pool, that's just over 23 trillion dollars, that only represents about .00086% of the world's gold.

22 posted on 08/29/2025 4:55:42 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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Oh, good. They found my property. I forgot where I left that thing.


23 posted on 08/29/2025 5:14:17 PM PDT by lowbridge ("Let’s check with Senator Schumer before we run it" - NY Times Editor)
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It appears to be between Qarazhal, and Aqadyr. A long way from any substantial infrastructure.


24 posted on 08/29/2025 5:16:18 PM PDT by marktwain
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The Weenie globalists have been all over the country for a couple of decades, at least.


25 posted on 08/29/2025 5:18:41 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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26 posted on 08/29/2025 7:38:29 PM PDT by sauropod
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