[az_gila]

Afghanistan’s lithium has NOT BEEN TAPPED because of the War, but it’s huge. Whoever gets final control of Afghanistan will control world lithium markets...

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Maybe, but some of the 2010 report you quote (NYT by way of AOL) may have been Pentagon propaganda...:^)

https://web.archive.org/web/20131101062551/http://www.aolnews.com/2010/06/14/report-afghanistan-sitting-on-goldmine-literally/

[Red Badger]

Such a sudden injection of wealth could also worsen government corruption. Just last year, for example, Afghanistan's minister of mines was accused by U.S. officials of accepting a $30 million bribe to award China the rights to develop a copper mine.

China doesn't throw money like that away on propaganda.................