Yet another great reason to know and understand the Periodic Table…
U.S. Discovers Vast Riches of Minerals in Afghanistan – NYTimes.com: “The previously unknown deposits — including huge veins of iron, copper, cobalt, gold and critical industrial metals like lithium — are so big and include so many minerals that are essential to modern industry that Afghanistan could eventually be transformed into one of the most important mining centers in the world, the United States officials believe.”
Wow.
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iam all up for annexing the country and saying its a territory what are they going to do shoot at us more. we aredy blew up most of there army.
My dad was the one who flow the geologist up the mountains that helped find all the lithium and stuff.
Seriously?
Wow, very cool!
If he ever wants to come in and speak, just let me know.
ooohh snap! Obama’s gonna be a rich man after this…