houndawg wrote:
Negative, your cluckishness.
You're thinking (to the extent that you're capable) of the iron and copper deposits in the north.
No, but don't worry, you look make yourself look stupid day, so why should today be different.
"In Afghanistan rare metals (lithium, caesium, tantalum and niobium 
) occur in three main deposit types: pegmatites, mineralised springs and playa-lake sediments"
Those don't sound like "cooper" and "iron", but maybe a genius such as yourself could give it a second look once you get your head out of your ass.
And guess when that was written? Hint: before 2010. Wanna' guess who wrote it? Hint: it rhymes with peeologists.
And they weren't even American. And guess where they pointed out some rare earth metals would be? Hint: your recent "discovery" wasn't an accident.
FACT: US geologists have been working in Afghanistan with the Pentagon since at least 2005.
houndawg wrote: The rare metals are in the southwest and preliminary estimates were made in '07, sight,unseen, based on Soviet notes. The geologists didn't get there in person until '10.
You sho is ignurnt, boy.
Ignurnt?
You might note the date on this "new" report from Sept 15th, 2011. Then, you might also want to note the date found within the article.
RESTON, Va., Sept. 15 (UPI) -- More than 1 million tons of rare earth minerals were discovered in less than 1 square mile of Helmand province in Afghanistan, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
The USGS found the rare earth elements in about one-quarter of a square mile in deposits in Helmand. A 2007 survey found an estimated 1.5 million metric tons of potential rare earth resources in southern Afghanistan.
Read more:
http://www.upi.com/Business_News/Energy ... z24o5EKv7W" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Found. That's an interesting word.
Copper and iron. 2010. North.
Now, get a load of this next set of lines from Scientific American from another "recent" find:
Ideally, geophysicists would generate three-dimensional views of the rock beneath the rare earth deposit Tucker and Peters visited by charting the region's magnetism and other properties with equipment carried on foot or in a low-flying plane.
Alas, the USGS has no plans to send its scientists back to Khan Neshin anytime soon. The agency's Pentagon funding has run out, and it is simply too dangerous for Americans to go again without military protection.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/arti ... are-earths" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Wait, scientists have found yet another billion dollars (hey, if they've been double counting for years, who cares, right...it makes a better story) worth of rare minerals and the Pentagon has run out of funding?
Let me tell you something, houndope...forget geologists...we've been using drones to survey areas for minerals for quite some time.
That's a
fact...and it isn't something the Pentagon talks about.
Your boy Obama is complaining that the Chinese, who control over 95% of the world's supply of rare elements, including contracts with Affy, is being "unfair". All while Obama is killing our troops in Afghanistan at a rate of about 1 per day.
Why are we still in Affy?
