tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22261571.post7760182614285389935..comments2024-02-20T10:31:15.121-05:00Comments on MEI Editor's Blog: Afghanistan OilUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22261571.post-41593858029122859962010-08-17T09:24:04.641-04:002010-08-17T09:24:04.641-04:00This comes on the heels of June reports of extensi...This comes on the heels of June reports of extensive deposits of minerals and resources other than oil estimated at a value of $1 trillion - iron, copper, cobalt, gold, and lithium, which is perhaps most significant given its importance for laptop and cell phone batteries. <br /><br />http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/14/world/asia/14minerals.html<br /><br />As you rightly suggest with your allusion to Sudan, "It can be hard to extract mineral wealth when there's a war going on." In many of these cases, too, the extraction of mineral wealth is not a separate entity, respective of conflict, but rather an engine of conflict, an enricher of killers. It might be "good news" but the "right circumstances" have proved very elusive time after time, whether in Liberia or the DRC.Saminoreply@blogger.com